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    Writing@Rice Cherry Reading Series: Gabrielle Calvocoressi

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    Presented by Rice University - Cherry Reading Series at Brazos Bookstore

    April 7, 2010

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    Writing@Rice Cherry Reading Series presents Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Wednesday, April 7, at 7pm at Brazos Bookstore.

    Rarely has a first book of poems been more exalted than Gabrielle Calvocoressi's The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, which the Times Literary Supplement called "an excoriation of present-day America by a new and lethal commentator." Now, in the Apocalyptic Swing extraordinary follow-up, Calvocoressi continues her mission to document the particular hardships of derelict American small towns.

    Without sacrificing one iota of poetic imagination or brilliance, Calvocoressi writes unbelievably potent poetry that everyday people connect with, poetry about real lives set in the real world. The small-town settings she writes of aren't happy -- there's brutality and bigotry -- but the poems have a beauty and spiritedness that make then feel incrediby heroic. The book contains unforgettable poems about jazz and boxing, two things to which its speaker turns to find solace and confidence. Reminiscent of work by Philip Levine and Mary Karr, it is a book about America, in all of its struggling and defiantly hopeful glory.

    Gabrielle Calvocoressi has won the Bernard F. Connors Prize from the Paris Review and a Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers. She teaches in the graduate writing programs of California College of the Arts and Warren Wilson College. She lives in Los Angeles.

    The Rice Cherry Reading Series is presented by the Rice Department of English and Fondren Library. Brazos is the proud bookseller of the series.


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