Spoken Word & Poetry Release Party | City Lights Books
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City Lights Books | 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA
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Celebrate the release of Haiti Glass by poet Lenelle Moïse at City Lights Books in North Beach on Tuesday, September 16, 2014. Moïse is well known for her spoken word performances, and we’ve confirmed that she will be reading her poetry on this evening.
The volume is the latest poetry collection in the City Lights/Sister Spit series, edited by Michelle Tea.
In her debut collection of verse and prose, Moïse moves deftly between memories of growing up as a Haitian immigrant in the suburbs of Boston, to bearing witness to brutality and catastrophe, to intellectual, playful explorations of pop culture enigmas like Michael Jackson and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Be it the presence of a skinhead on the subway, a newspaper account of unthinkable atrocity, or the ‘noose loosened to necklace’ of desire, the cut of Haiti Glass lays bare a world of resistance and survival, mourning and lust, need and process, triumph and prayer.
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Cost: FREE
Categories: *Top Pick*, Literature, San Francisco, Theater & Performance
