Fri, Sep 13
|Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehous
Catherine Strisik The Mistress; Gary Worth Moody The Burnings; Veronica Golos GIRL with Introduction by Santa Fe Poet La
Poets Veronica Golos, Catherine Strisik and Gary Worth Moody read their latest works
Date, Time & Location
Sep 13, 2019, 6:00 PM
Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehous, 202 Galisteo Street, Santa Fe, NM, USA
About the Event
Of Veronica Golos’ GIRL, Demetria Martinez, author of Mother Tongue writes: “Each of these exquisitely crafted poems is a gem that if held to the light reveals the whole of a girlhood. Every woman will recognize the “terrible sweetness” of her childhood, with its losses and gifts. Golos’ words are transformative.”
Catherine Strisik’s The Mistress presents a long marriage wherein illness becomes the Other. The poems of The Mistress strain at the edge: Beauty arises from pain, and pain emanates from the easy laughter of a long and lush bonding. The poems are deep with the flesh, as is Parkinson's disease in the flesh of the husband. This book is one of love poems, brilliantly executed.
In Gary Worth Moody's third and newest book of poetry, The Burnings, he examines fire as an archetypal element: weapon of punishment and war; agent of oppression and racism; implement of protest; symbol for…