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DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of her new book of poetry\n\nand then we 
 became\n\npublished by City Lights Books\n\nWho are we humans, with our 
 differences and our personal histories, mythologies and urgencies, as well 
 as our collective struggles and dreams? Why are we here? Questions of 
 culture, ethnicity and gender —and the denial of those borders —infuse 
 these poems, rich with social and political commentary, and filled with 
 compassion, love, anger and hope. Even while writing of one child, one 
 homeless person, one soldier, one war survivor, devorah major connects 
 these individual stories to a contemplation of humanity's place in the 
 cosmos.\n\nPraise for and then we became:\n\n"In and then we became, 
 devorah major steps out of the way and allows creation to craft creation. 
 The structures and paints of her descriptions have incredible range of 
 effect: the ascension into the first history a free people teach, the short 
 story perceived through possession, the melodic start-stop motion of a 
 debilitated life, the flash of your torturer's dream; all part of a 
 collaged panoramic of spirit and flesh. She is at home in all dimensions of 
 her subject. The voices of this work walk straight toward you holding out 
 moments of violence, lament, beauty, and invincibility for you to embrace, 
 offering a face to become your own."––Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of 
 Someone's Dead Already\n\n"I hate to turn on the radio each morning where I 
 hear that men haven't changed, staying in office for generations and 
 generally acting the fool. devorah major uses the many voices of women to 
 explore a world that we know less about than the oceans of Enceladus. The 
 great thing about devorah's book is that we can't interrupt as she rolls 
 out the indictment poem by poem."––Ishmael Reed\n\nPraise for devorah 
 major:\n\n"Musical and energetic, major's work calls for a live voice to 
 release its emotional power … major's stance as community witness pulling 
 hope from painful realities is compelling."—Publishers Weekly\n\n"The 
 local, the global, the personal, the political, the intimate and the 
 infinite all intersect and reflect one another in the mirrored imagery of 
 devorah major's poetry … major with her caring voice and quiet style make 
 these caring poems stick."—Al Young, Former Poet Laureate of 
 California\n\n"A visionary of hope, with a heart big enough to embrace 
 every neighborhood, street and alley in this magical and poetical city. 
 Here is a poet who shoots straight as Cupid’s arrow. Zing! Right to the 
 heart."—Alejandro Murguía, San Francisco Poet Laureate\n\nA California 
 born, San Francisco raised, granddaughter of immigrants, documented and 
 undocumented, devorah major served as San Francisco's Third Poet Laureate 
 (2002-2006). She has published two novels, four poetry books and four 
 poetry chapbooks, along with two young adult titles, and a host of short 
 stories, essays, and individual poems published in anthologies and 
 periodicals. Among her awards is a First Novelist award from the Black 
 Caucus of the ALA and a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award. Along 
 with composer Guillermo Galindo, major was given a commission by the 
 Oakland East Bay Symphony to create Trade Routes, a symphony with spoken 
 word and chorus that premiered in 2005. In June 2015 she premiered her 
 poetry play Classic Black: Voices of 19th-Century African-Americans in San 
 Francisco at the San Francisco International Arts Festival. She is 
 currently the poet-in-residence at the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums and 
 a Senior Adjunct Professor at California College of the Arts. More info and 
 writing can be found at www.devorahmajor.com\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790928.php
SUMMARY:Devorah Major
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\n261 Columbus Ave\nSan Francisco CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790928.php
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