Sun, Sep 22
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Carol Moldaw, Go Figure
In Go Figure, Carol Moldaw demonstrates an incandescent mastery of figuration in its many forms. These poems invite readers to draw their own conclusions. After the reading, poet Miriam Sagan will lead a conversation with Carol.
Date, Time & Location
Sep 22, 2024, 4:30 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store event and live streamed to Zoom, please register for Zoom here
Pre-order Go Figure (paperback, $17.95, publishes September 15, 2024) from CW here or call the store to order (505) 988-4226.
About Go Figure
Observing, inquiring, and delving, Moldaw brings the intertwined strands of life and art to light at their most intimate. A wife-muse who interrogates the role, a mother hard-pressed by motherhood, a daughter whose own mother’s decline causes her to probe their connection, and an artist with an exacting eye and ear who contemplates the creative mysteries, Moldaw is driven to understand and articulate the self in all its manifestations. Like a skater cutting first lines in ice, Moldaw displays lyric immediacy and lyric expanse in her poems with an unswerving command. Complex and inviting, with deft wit, the poems engage public and private life and voice a necessary and resounding affirmation…