Mon, Dec 07
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Malena Mörling, Lumina Station & Aldo Amparán, The House Has Teeth
Malena Mörling reflects on impermanence, perception, and the inexplicable beauty of being. Award-winning poet Aldo Amparán offers a profound rumination on violence, trauma, and how the spaces meant to protect us can become the most insidious.
Date, Time & Location
Dec 07, 2026, 6:00 PM MST
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom.
Order Lumina Station ($19.95, paperback ) and The House Has Teeth $20.95, paperback) online from CWB or call the store to order (5050 988-4226.
Lumina Station
Enthralled by the idea of the single continuous moment, Mörling's inimitable images--storefront mannequins, an aviary of light, forests walking straight out to the cliffs--render the fleeting moments of our lives with cinematic precision.
"The world is magic," Mörling asserts early in the book, and the pages of Lumina Station work to prove this claim over its course, engaging the mystery of the everyday with quiet wonder as meetings unfold in dreams and laundromats, on trains, and at the edge of a quarry where the speaker confronts language and time--"the invisible translator of what occurs."
Like spiral staircases, the poems stretch between the physical and metaphysical, spinning narratives that chart the connections between what we see and…