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DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the release of two new books of poetry\n\nA Poet's Dublin - by 
 Eavan Boland\n\nAnybody: Poems - by Ari Banias\n\nboth published by W.W. 
 Norton\n\nA rare evening of reading and discussion betweem teacher and 
 student.\n\nabout A Poet's Dublin:\n\nWritten over years, the transcendent 
 and moving poems in A Poet's Dublin seek out shadows and impressions of a 
 powerful, historic city, studying how it forms and alters language, memory, 
 and selfhood. The poems range from an evocation of the neighborhoods under 
 the hills where the poet lived and raised her children to the inner-city 
 bombing of 1974, and include such signature poems as "The Pomegranate," 
 “The War Horse,” and “Anna Liffey.” Above all, these poems weave 
 together the story of a self and a city—private, political, and bound by 
 history. The poems are supported by photographs of the city at all times 
 and in all seasons: from dawn on the river Liffey, which flows through 
 Dublin, to twilight up in the Dublin foothills.\n\nPraise for the work of 
 Eavan Boland:\n\n“For Boland, one feels poetry has to be honorable and 
 natural, though at times as terrifying as giving birth alone in the open 
 meadow, and that it is also made of blood and the guilt of being human.” 
 — Yusef Komunyakaa\n\nabout Anybody:Poems:\n\nIn Anybody, Ari Banias 
 takes up questions of recognition and belonging: how boundaries are drawn 
 and managed, the ways he and she, us and them, here and elsewhere are kept 
 separate, and at what cost identities and selves are forged. Moving through 
 iconic and imagined landscapes, Anybody confronts the strangeness of being 
 alive and of being a restlessly gendered, queer, emotive body. Wherever the 
 poet turns—the cruising spaces of Fire Island, a city lake, a Greek 
 island, a bodega-turned-coffee-shop—he finds the charge of boundedness 
 and signification, the implications of what it means to be a this instead 
 of a that. Witty, tender, and original, these poems pierce the constructs 
 that define our lives.\n\nPraise for the work of Ari Banias:\n\n“I’m so 
 impressed by the range and grace of Ari Banias’ Anybody. It’s 
 discursive, straight-talking, and thinky, then ghostlike, elliptical, and 
 mischievous. It takes its time, then rushes; it’s quiet, then bold; 
 it’s steeped in sociality, then ringing with solitude. I happily 
 recognize its arrival, even if I know (as does Banias, quoting Berlant) 
 that recognition may be but the misrecognition we can bear.” — Maggie 
 Nelson\n\n“Born late in the twentieth century, tutored under the twin 
 suns of Frank O’Hara and Guillaume Apollinaire, vexed by 'this set of 
 meanings on my body,’ Ari Banias is a poet for this hour—bewildered, 
 hopeful, and cracklingly alive, a citizen of the possible. How many 
 utopias? (keep imagining them).” — Mark Doty\n\n“Here is Anybody with 
 its syntax of rupture and suture, its restless questions and metaphysical 
 balloons. What a thrilling, original, generous, openhearted book. A book we 
 have waited for, whoever we are.” — Donna Masini\n\n“Ari Banias has 
 written one of the finest first books (OK, any book!) that I’ve ever 
 read… These poems stake a claim on the future: they give us a poet who 
 understands to the bone how syntax and line and music embody emotion, and 
 how the integrity of the spirit is the maker’s integrity.” — Tom 
 Sleigh\n \n\nEavan Boland is the author of more than a dozen volumes of 
 poetry and nonfiction. A professor and the director of the creative writing 
 program at Stanford University, she is the winner of a Lannan Foundation 
 Award. She lives in Stanford, California, and Dublin, Ireland.\n\nAri 
 Banias has held fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, 
 the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and Stanford University, 
 where he was most recently a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He received an MFA in 
 poetry from Hunter College and lives in Berkeley, California.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790929.php
SUMMARY:Eavan Boland with Ari Banias
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\n261 Columbus Ave\nSan Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790929.php
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