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Join us in welcoming poet and book friend Jan Wiezorek for our November Author Event and celebrate his latest work, "Prayer’s Prairie". Along with his poetry, Jan will be sharing his process with us and we’ll open the floor to questions and signings after the reading. Enjoy refreshments while you’re here and get your book signed in person! Copies of Jan’s book Prayer’s Prairie are on sale at the shop now and available for purchase day of event as well. If you’re looking for a way to meet new people (or just find something fun & different to do!) mark your calendars for one of our monthly Author Events!
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"Prayer's Prairie" digs into a terrain and its people, past and present, to upturn and preserve artifacts of the mind.
Artfully composed and immersive, set among the fires and grasses from the Great Lakes to the Northern Plains, these poems revere the prairie-scape and the Prayer's complexities of lives and deaths on its soils. Its people show a compassion "that still salves, still stings."
The rough loveliness of the habitat emerges from the soil-the "wild onion, clover, stinging nettles, husks and rasps" are "entitled to be prairie." And its inhabitants are called to higher standards. A speaker calls out destruction in the name of progress, posing questions such as
"If the / machine is dominant, what and who / are submissive, and why?"
Yet, much remains. The poems are a recognition of the beautiful permanence of this land and the generations who lived there. https://bookshop.org/p/books/prayer-s-prairie-jan-wiezorek/22699712?ean=9781950744237&next=t
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
110 E Front St, Buchanan, MI, United States, Michigan 49107
