[Yale-readings] Book Party, Artspace 6-11 7:30 pm

[Nancy Kuhl]

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 at artspacenh.org

About the books:

Half-Lit Houses by Tina Chang
<http://www.fourwaybooks.com/order.html>
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.
—Li-Young Lee

Instrumentality by Ravi Shankar
<http://www.cherry-grove.com/shankar.html>
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.
—Charles Bernstein

The Opening Question by Prageeta Sharma
<http://www.fencebooks.com/new_titles.html>
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.
—Forrest Gander, Boston Review


Nancy Kuhl
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
121 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Phone: 203.432.2966
Fax: 203.432.4047
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