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Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland presents another installment of the always excellent Poetry Flash, this time with Joan Aleshire, Stephanie Brown, and Martha Rhodes on Sunday, September 23rd at 3pm.Joan Aleshire's new book of poems is Happily.
Stephen Dobyns says of it, "Aleshire's poems are as much sound as
sense, and together they don't talk so much about a vanished time as
recreate it with all its many levels of actuality and gradations of
emotions."
Stephanie Brown's latest book book of poems is Domestic
Interior. Tony Hoagland says, "Stephanie Brown is one of my
favorite poets. There's something lethally, courageously blunt in
her poems. Her star is stationed somewhere in the quadrant of Sylvia
Plath and Anne Carson, and it throbs with its own distinctive human
brightness." Her first collection was Allegory of the
Supermarket, and her work has been anthologized in American
Poetry: The Next Generation, Body Electric: Twenty-five Years of
America's Best Poetry, and in four editions of The Best
American Poetry.Martha Rhodes's new book is The Beds. Cate Marvin
says, "I can assure you that Martha Rhodes' unflinching manner
in The Beds will make you flinch - what's so brilliant about
this book is how steadfastly it refuses closure. These poems, grim and
wise, never arrive in the guise of the Good Girl. And for that brand
of honesty, I am most grateful." Her previous collections are At
the Gate, Perfect Disappearance, which won the Green Rose Prize,
and Mother Quiet. She is Director of Four Way Books.
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Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood welcomes local author Nell Stephenson to the store to discuss and sign her new book, Paleoista, on Sunday, September 23rd at 3pm. The Paleo Diet grows out of the belief that we were intended to eat off the land: what walks on it, grows from it, or swims in its waters. It's about sticking to the kind of foods that human beings were born to ingest (fresh fruits and vegetables, seafood, lean meats, and natural fats), and excluding those that were developed later (grains, legumes, dairy products, salt, refined sugar, and processed oils). As the ultimate Paleoista, Nell Stephenson knows exactly how to incorporate the Paleo diet into one's day-to-day life with ease, efficiency, and style.Nell Stephenson is the coauthor of The Paleo Diet Cookbook. Her writing has appeared in The Paleo Diet Newsletter, USA Triathlon, and other publications. She owns and operates an online Paleo nutritional counseling business and is a competitive endurance athlete who has raced in Ironman World Championships. Visit her online at Paleoista.com.
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