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Richard G.
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Wendy Salinger Reads from Her Memoir, <i>Listen,<br>
</i> at The Yale Bookstore on May 6<br>
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<h3><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><b>What:</i></b></font>
Wendy Salinger reading from and signing copies of her memoir, Listen
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Saturday, May 6, 2006 at 2:00 pm<br>
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Where:
</b></font>The Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway, New Haven, CT<br>
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<h2><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><b>About The Book:
</b></font>Listen</i> is Wendy Salinger’s haunting and artfully wrought
memoir of growing up the daughter of a brilliant but tormented literature
professor in North Carolina. What makes this debut so unique is
Salinger’s ability to conjure the voices of her parents, her use of
language and metaphor, and the intensity of the experiences that pulls
the reader into her life. In Listen </i>we are introduced to Wendy,
a middle child and burgeoning poet, as she grows up during the 1950s and
1960s. At the head of her outwardly proper academic family is
Victor, a professor of literature and languages who wants his epitaph to
read “Poet, Teacher, Translator.” But there are other sides to
Victor’s legacy for his three obedient daughters and his long-suffering
wife Lillian, whom he tyrannizes with his demands and
dissatisfactions. For Wendy, in particular, growing up with Victor
means an apprenticeship to language that ultimately leads her to her
life’s work. But that same hand leads her down darker paths, into
the deep confusions of incest and betrayal. In telling her story,
Salinger deftly shifts between comic monologue and scenes of stark
descriptive and emotional force. Hers is a rare gift: the ear
of both a dramatist and a poet. There are times when her writing
strips language to the bone. And like all honest memoirs,
Listen</i> is also about exploring the meaning of memory itself.
What do families choose to remember? What do they choose to
forget? And can the things forgotten be recovered? This is
the story of a daughter who listened, and who used the gifts bequeathed
to her by her father to unlock her past and eventually create her
future. It’s the memoir of a poet, for whom the secrets of memory
are the secrets of language.</h2><br>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><b>About The Author:
</b></font>Wendy Salinger is the author of <i>Folly River, </i>which won
the National Poetry Series, and a graduate of Duke and the University of
Iowa. Her work has appeared in <i>The New Yorker, The Kenyon
Review, The Paris Review, </i>and <i>Ploughshares. </i>She is the
recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a fellow at the
MacDowell Colony. She directs the Schools Project at the
92<sup>nd</sup> Street Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center in New York City.<br>
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and Noble College Bookstore, is located at 77 Broadway at York Square,
New Haven, CT, 06511, (203) 777-8440,
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www.yalebookstore.com. </a> All events are free and open to the
public. The bookstore offers a wide selection of bestsellers,
titles by Yale and local authors, Yale course books and emblematic
merchandise, dorm supplies, gifts, stationery and Clinique
products. The Yale Bookstore Café serves Starbucks coffee and
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