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1) FOUR WAY BOOKS IS PLEASED TO CELEBRATE
FIFTEEN YEARS OF PUBLISHING
JOIN US AT EVENTS THROUGHOUT 2007-2008!
2) Jeffrey Harrison's Incomplete Knowledge is on the 2007 Book Sense Poetry
Top Ten list.
"Jeffrey Harrison is an incredible poet who continues to perfect
his craft with each new book. Incomplete Knowledge speaks to the loss of his
brother through suicide. It is simply elegant and very powerful."
--John M.
Hugo, Andover Bookstore, Andover, MA.
Top Ten is the result of strong
support from booksellers, reflecting a deep level of knowledge and
commitment.
3) The Second Person by C. Dale Young
From Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW
The title of Young's second collection evokes the book's many concerns:
romantic partnership and sex (especially between two men), the nature of the
other, and the "you" to whom many of these poems are addressed. Young's
preoccupation with the body comes from his medical background (he is a
practicing physician) filtered through an aesthete's attention to form and
lyric (most of these poems are in neat tercets). Young's speakers are caught
between the desire to understand and the desire to simply desire: "It is not
the bone below the skin that I kiss/ but the silence clinging to the skull's
curve." The poems come to the page already burdened by a doctor's knowledge
that mortality rules over even love, and the natural world becomes an
analogy for human suffering: "the rain spreads like a bruise over the
ocean." The excellent long poem "Triptych at the Edge of Sight" sketches a
blurry romantic "landscape filled with failure" whose all-too-human
inhabitants may or may not find spiritual consolation. When Young's two
worlds—the medical and the metaphorical—merge, they create a love poetry
that is sublime because and in spite of its knowledge. (Apr.)
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4) The winner of the 2006 Intro Prize in Poetry is Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan of Houston TX for Shadow Mountain, selected by Kimiko Hahn.
5) Joel Brouwer has been selected to receive the Four Way Books residency at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He will be there for a month in spring 2007.
6) Four Way Books has received government and private foundation grants in 2006 and commitments for 2007and is grateful for the support of these organizations. We are also grateful for the generous donations we have received from individual donors.
Events
Saturday, November 17 at 6:00
A KNOCK OUT READING AT GLEASON”S GYM
77 Front Street in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn
BOXER, TRAINER, POET David Lawrence reads
from his new book LANE CHANGES
Book signing, reading, refreshments
Thursday, November 29 7:00-9:00
FALL PARTY at McNally Robinson Book Store
52 Prince Street, in Soho, east of Lafayette St.
Refreshments. Free admission. Short Readings and Book signings.
Celebrating the publication of Hams beneath the Firmament
by Terri Ford (spring 07) and our fall list: Laurel Blossom’s
Degrees of Latitude, April Ossmann’s Anxious Music,
and David Lawrence’s Lane Changes.
Fifteenth Anniversary Reading at AWP
FOUR WAY BOOKS 15 YEARS
Daniel Tobin, Laurel Blossom, April Ossmann,
Jeffrey Harrison, C. Dale Young, Kevin Prufer
Saturday, February 2, 2008
NY Hilton 1:30-2:45PM
READINGS ON THE BOWERY, SPONSORED BY FOUR WAY BOOKS
Sundays at 2:00
January 13
Dick Lurie, Robert Hershon, John Hoppenthaler, Suzanne Cleary
February 17
Christine Casson, Patrick Phillips, D. Nurkse, Rigoberto Gonzales
March 9
Deb Bogen, Matt Donovan, Sara London, Gerald Stern
April 13
Matt Schwartz, Kevin Prufer, Wendy Rawlings
May 4
Claire Kageyama- Ramakrishnan, Mary Jo Bang, Tim Donnelly, Eileen Pollack
Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery between Houston and First Streets, $8.00 admission, $2.00 gets you a drink at the bar.
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