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David Ray Vance & Anna Journey: book signing and discussion

Presented by Brazos Bookstore at Brazos Bookstore

April 23, 2009

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Brazos Bookstore is pleased to host Anna Journey, current UH student of Creative Writing, and UH alum, David Ray Vance, for a special reading.

Winner of the Del Sol Press 2005 Poetry Prize, David Ray Vance's poetry collection combines science and art gloriously.

Mary Jo Bang, the Prize Judge, has this to say about his poetry collection Vitreous: "Part rewritten...

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Brazos Bookstore is pleased to host Anna Journey, current UH student of Creative Writing, and UH alum, David Ray Vance, for a special reading.

Winner of the Del Sol Press 2005 Poetry Prize, David Ray Vance's poetry collection combines science and art gloriously.

Mary Jo Bang, the Prize Judge, has this to say about his poetry collection Vitreous: "Part rewritten 1934 medical text, part Keatsian reflection, this is the logical offspring of the long-awaited meeting of science and art; a marriage of equals where each half maintains its primary allegiance: the poetic to the common lyrical language of emotion and memory, the medical to its narrowly appropriated lexicon of intraocular, cornea, and Placido's disc. Mr. Vance has woven these two competing word streams into a meditation on sight and risk. Think of it as an item in the cupboard of the scientifically sublime. Think of Ronald Johnson's Ark. Vitreous is utterly fascinating in its reach, and exquisitely tender. And important, because it answers again today's recurrent question, Can form be further broken and still be a poem? The answer (of course) is yes."

Pictured: David Ray Vance.

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