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BookWoman is delighted to welcome editor Jenny Browne and contributors to the newly-released anthologyTexas, Being: A State of Poems (Trinity University Press, 2024) for this celebratory reading, which will take place in-store (5501 N. Lamar, Suite #A-105, Austin 78751) and on Zoom Sunday, November 10 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. CST. Cindy Huyser hosts.If you're joining us in-store, be sure to bring a mask, as BookWoman continues to require them in the spirit of protecting the vulnerable among us. And if you're joining us via Zoom, be sure to register via Eventbrite and to log into your Zoom account with email and password before accessing the link.
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From the Trinity University Press website:
Texas, Being: A State of Poems collects more than forty-five poems from a beautiful and brutal state. Some are about the music of their languages. Some speak to the dead, some to the sun, and others to omissions of history. One concerns a hedgehog cactus, and another a roller rink. From “Happy, Texas” to “Palestine, TX,” from seashores to skeletons to Selena, all are in one way or another about Texas, but good poems are always about more than one thing.
Selected by Jenny Browne, 2017 poet laureate of Texas, these poems draw a picture of one of America’s vastly sublime yet most audaciously independent corners. In these diverse voices, the state is a lovely and painful contradiction of space and meaning. Texas is a place “where blind catfish cruise” and wild asters grow. It’s a frame of mind where Jenny Boully writes “the history is unending” and Mexican American studies professor Christopher Carmona can “feel the slowness of time.” Jorge Luis Borges wrote of it as “an endless plain / Where a man’s cry dies a lonely death.” Victoria Chang writes that “there is so / much sky that even birds / get lost."
Contact BookWoman to order your copy of Texas, Being: A State of Poems and other titles for in-store pickup, curbside delivery and direct-from-warehouse shipping: [email protected]; (512)472-2785; https://ebookwoman.com .
DATE:
11/10/2024
TIME:
4:00pm - 5:30pm
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
5501 N Lamar Blvd, Ste A105, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78751
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