Julie Bruck - Monkey Ranch
- When
- Thu Apr 19, 2012
- Where
- The Booksmith
- Time
- 7:30 pm
- Tags
- Literary Arts, Author Appearances
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Description
The compassionate and precise eye for which her earlier books were praised is given a wider, more ambitious scope in Monkey Ranch, Julie Bruck’s third collection. What, these poems ask, is sufficient, what will suffice?A mandrill, a middle-aged woman, a shattered Baghdad neighborhood, a long marriage and even a spoon grapple with this conundrum—sometimes with rage, or plain persistence, sometimes with the furious joy of a dog who gets to ride with his head out a truck’s passenger window.
Julie Bruck is the author of two previous books, The End of Travel, and The Woman Downstairs. Her recent work has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Literary Mama, Maisonneuve, The Malahat Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review and The Walrus, among other publications. A Montreal native, she lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughter, and two enormous, geriatric goldfish.
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