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You are invited to a reading to celebrate new books by Tina Chang, Ravi
Shankar, and Prageeta Sharma: Friday, June 11th, 7:30 pm at Artspace in
New Haven, 50 Orange Street at Crown, New Haven, 06510; Phone:
203-772-2709 email: info@artspacenh.org <br>
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<b>About the books:<br>
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<i>Half-Lit Houses </i>by Tina Chang<br>
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Tina Chang's poems perform the ancient tasks of remembrance, recovery,
and praise. This work seeks to account for a life in the context of the
myths, cultural and familial, that both nurture and threaten that very
life and the voice that might sing it into legend. This is a poetry of
amazing lushness, melancholy and affirmation. <br>
—Li-Young Lee <br>
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<b><i>Instrumentality</i> by Ravi Shankar<br>
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Instrumentality plays expectations and delivers uncanny reformulations
that seem "predestined, in retrospect." Rave Shaker’s poems
are filled with the pleasure of subjects dissolving into ideas, ideas
folding into sounds, and sounds echoing familiar but elusive
translocations. <br>
—Charles Bernstein <br>
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<b><i>The Opening Question</i> by Prageeta Sharma<br>
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Sharma is inclined to explore cultural disjunctions, the glide of sound,
power, and perception between people and languages: "you are
pointing west when you say dish, desh." Sometimes she sounds as
American as John Berryman. But at other times Sharma serializes simple
declarative statements or taps into a kind of Berlitz translation
diction: "We are an Indian family with Indian friends from
India." In other words, her imagination is whirring at full tilt,
and her approaches to the poem are varied and fresh and exciting. <br>
—Forrest Gander, Boston Review <br>
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Nancy Kuhl<br>
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature<br>
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library<br>
Yale University<br>
121 Wall Street<br>
P.O. Box 208240<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8240<br>
Phone: 203.432.2966 <br>
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