LITERATURE + LECTURES

Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Connie Voisine, who signs and reads from her book  Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream, Wednesday, March 25 at 7pm.

Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream is a book haunted by the afterlife of medieval theology and literature yet grounded in distinctly modern quandaries of desire. Connie Voisine’s female speakers reverberate with notes of Marie de France’s tragic heroines, but whereas Marie’s poems are places where women’s longings quickly bloom and die in captivity -- in towers and dungeons -- Voisine uses narrative to suspend the movement of storytelling.

For Voisine, poems are occasions for philosophical wanderings, extended lyrics that revolve around the binding and unbinding of desire, with lonely speakers struggling with the impetus of wanting as well as the necessity of a love affair’s end. With fluency, intelligence, and deeply felt emotional acuity, Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream navigates the heady intersection of obsessive love and searing loss.

Connie Voisine is associate professor of English at New Mexico State University and director of La Sociedad para las Artes, an arts outreach organization. She is the author of Cathedral of the North, which received the Associated Writing Programs poetry award.