{"id":1713,"date":"2020-11-10T21:02:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T21:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/morris\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2021-11-08T16:50:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T16:50:34","slug":"meet-the-poets-local-author-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/morris\/2020\/11\/10\/meet-the-poets-local-author-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Poets: Virtual Local Author Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Morris Library presents \u201cMeet the Poets: Local Author Talk\u201d with area authors David Bachner, Lynne Kemen, Julene Waffle, and Vicki Whicker. Oneonta publisher Woodland Arts Editions recently published four new books of poetry by the authors. Join us Saturday November 14 from 2:00-3:30 PM as the authors discuss their published works and craft, followed by a Q&A session. Please preregister at the link<\/a> <\/strong>provided.<\/div>
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From the publisher:
\u201cDavid Bachner\u2019s Capital Ironies explores Washington, DC\u2019s monuments and public spaces, its boulevards and side streets, its trails and riverside promenades, to delve into the deeper life of the city, Bachner writes, whose \u201cblatancies, nuances, and contradictions\u201d he has come to know well after forty years of residency. \u201cIn a genial voice beset by the anxieties of a fractured nation, Bachner takes us across the intersections of his life and the life of the city, monumental and momentary alike,\u201d writes editor Robert Bensen. Dr. Bachner was dean of Global Studies at Hartwick College and scholar-in-residence at American University’s School of International Service.<\/div>
Lynne Kemen\u2019s More Than a Handful revisits childhood to see things both as a child and as an adult, and to come home and delight in Upstate New York. Kemen \u201casks unanswerable questions\u201d as her poems illuminate dark family houses and recall childhood being \u201cnatural in a body that belongs,\u201d writes poet Lisa Wujnovich. Reviewer Linda Lowen compares the collection to \u201ca spoonful of honey stirred into a cup of tea, swirling the sweet and the bitter into a warming, perfectly-steeped blend.\u201d After a career in New York City theatre, dance medicine, and biopsychology, Dr. Kemen moved to her family home in Franklin and is on the board of Bright Hill Literary Center.<\/div>
Julene Waffle\u2019s So I Will Remember captures the beauty and turbulence of the past and present to vividly populate a future when memory fades. In her tribute to family, Waffle shows we are who we are because of the choices our ancestors made and the world that shaped them. Poet Liz Rosenberg said the book \u201cis filled with small, shining gems\u2014glimpses of her young son; an ode to the world of wind and stars. In fact her book is full of nature\u2014the nature around us, and insight into the human nature within us.\u201d Poet Julie Suarez said that Waffle \u201chelps us to remember our own panoply of losses and delights\u2026She makes the everyday luminous and catches \u2018moments of awe and beauty in a web of words\u2019\u2014no small task.\u201d Waffle teaches and coaches at Morris Central School and operates Colonial Ridge Golf Course in Laurens with her family.<\/div>
With Caught Before Flight, Vicki Whicker fashions a lyric memoir that takes us on a trip from a stark 60\u2019s childhood to her technicolor adulthood. These poems spring from a strong feminine gaze: edgy, sensual, lyrical and vivid. Poet Jack Grapes writes, \u201cRead these poems as you would inhale oxygen, both before and after you\u2019ve lost your breath reading these feathery poems, each one as profound as a mountain.” Memoirist Josh Kilmer-Purcell writes, \u201cCaught Before Flight is overflowing with exquisitely succulent imagery of Whicker\u2019s personal relationships\u2026creating residual longing that lingers beyond the final page…Rich, mature, and impressively lyrical, these poems demand to be savored.\u201d Whicker left the West Coast and her fashion career to experience and interpret, as poet and fine art photographer, the bucolic life of upstate New York.\u201d<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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