3 poetry events

COMING UP AT THE BOOKSMITH IN SAN FRANCISCO (1644 Haight Street). . .

W.S. DiPiero
reading and booksigning for "Brother Fire"
Monday, November 15th at 7 pm

In Brother Fire, poet W. S. Di Piero seeks the spirit and substance of
illumination in all its forms. He finds meaning, or shows us how we
attempt to do so, in the rituals and events that mark the year - as
well as in the ordinary activities of dancing, cutting the lawn,
drinking, or trying to stay warm. For all their simplicity, Di Piero's
direct, often conversational turns of phrase reveal a world aflame
with troubles, with love, with surprising lyrical epiphanies.

W. S. Di Piero is the author of eight books of poetry, as well as four
volumes of translations. He writes about art for the San Diego Reader
and has published three collections of essays and criticism on art,
literature, and personal experience. He lives in San Francisco and
teaches at Stanford University.

Anne Waldman
reading and booksigning for "Structure of the World Compared to a
Bubble"
Tuesday, November 16th at 7 pm

The Stupa of Borobudur in Java is one of the architectural wonders of
the world, designed as both a mandala and as an aid for the Buddhist
pilgrim that can be read as a holy book. It inspired Anne Waldman to
create Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble - a poetic work
that is part walking meditation, part cultural intervention, part
recovery of a sacred site, and a take on contemporary reality and how
the busy "monkey mind" works and travels.

Anne Waldman is a widely acclaimed poet, editor, performer, teacher,
and activist. She is the author of more than thirty books including,
most recently, In the Room of Never Grieve: New and Selected Poems.
She is the co-founder with Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac School
of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute.

August Kleinzahler
reading and booksigning for "Cutty, One Rock"
Thursday, November 18th at 7 pm

Cutty, One Rock - the first-ever collection of essays by San
Francisco poet August Kleinzahler - takes readers on a wild journey by
airplane, bus, ferry, and foot from childhood to early manhood in the
company of a New Jersey family in equal measures cultivated and
deranged. We witness scenes of passionate, even violent intensity that
give rise to meditations on eros and literature, the solitariness of
travel, and the poetics of place.

August Kleinzahler was born and raised in New Jersey. He is the author
of ten books of poems, most recently The Strange Hours Travelers Keep.
His work has been praised by the likes of John Ashbery, Helen Vendler,
Allen Ginsberg, and Richard Wilbur.

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