22/04/2022
Join us Sunday, May 22, 2022 @ 4:30pm (PST)/ 7:30pm (EST) on Zoom for the FINAL Release Reading of our 2022 Chapbook Series. Featuring poets Sarah Rosenthal (WE COULD HANG A RADICAL PANEL OF LIGHT) + Raul Ruiz (MUSTARD).
🌻Register here: tinyurl.com/radicalmustard . .
🌱ABOUT THE BOOKS:
🟨WE COULD HANG A RADICAL PANEL OF LIGHT:
Sarah Rosenthal’s we could hang a radical panel of light embodies the visibility of the poetic process, in which the tangible and intangible are held in counterbalance. Words and phrases from Rosenthal’s dream journal have been broken apart, rearranged, and placed by hand on the page, each cut-out white rectangle becoming its own panel of light. The compositional practice of collage builds a tenuous sense of structure and evokes a shifting subjectivity, a revolving, scintillating sense of meaning. “Estelle,” “she,” and “I” are all points in a constellation of a self grappling with pain and identity as they mirror, overlap, and depart from one another, traversing the vast space in which each panel has been carefully affixed. . .
🟡MUSTARD:
Like a breathless friend on a busy corner, Raul Ruiz’s Mustard lifts our gaze, winks, and gestures towards the sky, which is somehow filled with hummingbirds. Surreal, big-hearted, and playful, this series of prose poems documents one jaded (or maybe not yet?) poet's employment at the Libreria De Amplio Margen, "a little bookshop on a street that time was beginning to erase from us," punctuated by the author’s original line drawings. With shrewd and companionable tenderness, Ruiz catches us up in the inextricably strange and hungry experience of being human—loving, dreaming, writing—amidst the buying and selling of books.
