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DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of\n\nBuck Studies\n\nfrom Fence Books\n\nPoet, 
 performer, librettist, and educator, Douglas Kearney returns to City Lights 
 presenting a performance of his poetry. Kearney's works speak to those who 
 are listening to what our living, material language has to say about race 
 and history. At the hub of Buck Studies is a long mash-up of the stories of 
 Herakles, the Greek bad-man, and that of Stagger Lee, the black bad-man. 
 "Stagger Put Work In" examines the Twelve Labors Herakles performed to 
 atone for murdering his family through Stagger Lee's murder of black man 
 Billy Lyons. What is enacted by this appropriation is an exhaustion of 
 forms—gangsta rap and its antecedent, the murder ballad.\n\nDouglas 
 Kearney's collection of writing on poetics and performativity, Mess and 
 Mess and (Noemi Press, 2015), was a Small Press Distribution Handpicked 
 Selection that Publisher's Weekly called "an extraordinary book." His third 
 poetry collection, Patter (Red Hen Press, 2014) examines miscarriage, 
 infertility, and parenthood and was a finalist for the California Book 
 Award in Poetry. Cultural critic Greg Tate remarked that Kearney's second 
 book, National Poetry Series selection, The Black Automaton (Fence Books, 
 2009), "flows from a consideration of urban speech, negro spontaneity and 
 book learning." Someone Took They Tongues. (Subito Press 2016) collects 
 several of his libretti, including one written in a counterfeit 
 Afro-diasporic language. He was the guest editor for 2015's Best American 
 Experimental Writing (Wesleyan). He has received a Whiting Writer’s 
 Award, residencies/fellowships from Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg 
 Foundation, and others. His work has appeared in a number of journals, 
 including Poetry, nocturnes, Pleiades, Iowa Review, Boston Review, and 
 Indiana Review; and anthologies, including Best American Poetry, Best 
 American Experimental Writing, Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, 
 The Breakbeat Poets, and What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Poets in 
 America. Raised in Altadena, CA, he lives with his family in California’s 
 Santa Clarita Valley. He teaches at CalArts. Visit: 
 http://douglaskearney.com/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790915.php
SUMMARY:Douglas Kearney
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\n261 Columbus Ave\nSan Francisco CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790915.php
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