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Mary Ellen Capek, Love Lessons & Barbara Rockman, to cleave
Mary Ellen Capek, Love Lessons & Barbara Rockman, to cleave

Sun, Feb 09

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Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse

Mary Ellen Capek, Love Lessons & Barbara Rockman, to cleave

Mary Ellen Capek's first collection of poems, Love Lessons, describes a creative life well-lived: loves, deaths, struggles to name worlds she encounters. "[Rockman's] poems are pitch perfect and packed with the world in complex sentences."--Mary McCray, Big Bang Poetry

Date, Time & Location

Feb 09, 2025, 4:30 PM MST

Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA

About the Event

This will be an in-store event and will be live streamed to Zoom, register for Zoom here.


Love Letters and to cleave can be ordered from CW by calling the store to order (505) 988-4226. Signed copies will be available after the event.


Love Lessons is Mary Ellen Capek's first collection of poems, spanning fifty years, where she describes growing up in the '50s, coming of age in the '60s, first love, sex, marriage, her mother's early death, friendships, divorce, stepchildren, and coming out as a lesbian at age 45.


Several poems central to Love Lessons focus on language, paying tribute to Adrienne Rich and other writers struggling to realize Rich's "dream of a common language," essential for describing women's lives. Her poems also focus on the interconnectedness of all creation, with allusions to essential understandings of justice, human rights, and the intersections of history and politics within our day-to-day…


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