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DESCRIPTION:Come join Micah Ballard for a reading and discussion of Waifs and Strays, 
 published by City Lights Books.\n\nThe second full-length collection by 
 Micah Ballard, Waifs and Strays recombines the allure, fixations, and 
 diction of the Metaphysical poets with the alert and streetwise fracturing 
 and instant amazements in contemporary San Francisco. Elegiac, elusive, 
 evocative, the poems roam an urban landscape of bars, books, and chance 
 encounters, where the ghosts of Congo Square haunt the avenues of the 
 Fillmore. With the wasted elegance of Baudelaire, and the handmade warmth 
 of Semina, Waifs and Strays is a rejection of all that is slick and 
 disposable in 21st-century culture.\n\nPraise for Waifs and 
 Strays:\n\n"Waifs and Strays is an invocation of poetic ancestry, so as to 
 lead the reader through a gallery of visions imbued with elegance and 
 charm. I enjoy deciphering the marvelous engravings, names, and epitaphs 
 mapped out along its pages. There is a chimerical secrecy at work in these 
 texts, an awareness of the poem as conduit. Mark this encrypted province 
 you hold in your hands." –Guillermo Parra\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/08/30/18689111.php
SUMMARY:Waifs and Strays, Micah Ballard at City Lights Bookstore
LOCATION:City Lights Books\n261 Columbus Avenue\nSan Francisco, CA 94133
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/08/30/18689111.php
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