Celebrate the launch of Jen Sperry Steinorth's latest book, Boys Behind Glass, with a GenX poetry play and launch party.About this Event
Boys Behind Glass is a cheeky documentary of contemporary masculinity through the lens of matchmaking, pop culture, scientific “progress” and female gaze. This third collection from Jennifer Sperry Steinorth continues a trajectory of genre-bending poetry, this time in collaboration with artist Jenny Walton, whose documentary series Match/Enemy creates a visual algorithm of her experience on OKCupid and explores how men-seeking-women represent themselves via anonymity. In the first half of the book, watercolor portraits of single men are paired with irreverent “sonnets” gazing into the mind of a fictional woman looking at the men, looking for love. The second half is a maximalist kaleidoscope, masquerading as elaborate end notes, a diagnostic of loneliness through a wiki-esque labyrinth of technology and iconography. The culmination is a carousal of sex, selfies, heroes, and techies, what we long for & the many ways we hide.
A portion of proceeds benefits the Women's Resource Center.
This event will contain mature themes.
Event Venue
The Alluvion, East Eighth Street, Traverse City, MI, USA, United States
USD 14.64 to USD 41.32
