James Sherry discusses and signs "Entangled Bank"
DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes James Sherry to the store to discuss and sign his latest poetry collection, Entangled Bank on Thursday, February 23rd at 7:00 pm. Joining him in conversation will be local poet Sara Larsen.
"Entangled Bank opens with a set of five line poems dedicated to the 'beauty' of various poets, a nuanced and generous version of Joseph Kaplan's infamous Kill List, and concludes with a wrenchingly honest prose piece on Sherry's correspondence with the late poet Stacy Doris on the limits of empathy. Between these gestures toward a troubled yet significant human connection, Sherry places poems in a variety of styles, as if styles were species in an ecosystem, a veritable 'entangled bank'. Often he writes with scathing wit on the degradation of the environment and the fraudulence of the financial system. One line admonishes, 'Wake up, this is about you.' And it is. You're going to want it." — Rae Armantrout
James Sherry is the author of eleven previous books of poetry and prose, including Oops! Environmental Poetics. He is publisher of Roof Books and started the Segue Foundation, Inc., a multi arts producer, in 1977 in New York City.
Sara Larsen is a poet living in Oakland, CA. Her previous book is All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous, and her chapbooks include Riot Cops en Route to Troy, Merry Hell, and The Hallucinated, among others. Sara has performed her work widely, including at The Berkeley Art Museum, Grace Cathedral, LitQuake, and at Multifarious Array in NYC. Over the course of two years, she and David Brazil published more than 60 issues of the seminal literary zine Try Magazine.
Copies of Entangled Bank will be available for purchase at the event.
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