JUNE 5 • BOOK LAUNCH Lines by Sarah Riggs
We are happy to celebrate Sarah Riggs new book Lines and end our chapter in this space with her as an exclamation point!
Sarah will be joined by Omar Berrada for a conversation.
Sarah Riggs’s eighth book of poems pulls from the momentum of Lyn Hejinian’s My Life and Bernadette Mayer’s Memory to create a survival manual for a Trump presidency and a family crisis.
Riggs’s book-length poetry cycle begins with 47-line poems (corresponding to the author’s age) and breaks its form as it builds, riding on association and assonance. Lines seeks to turn colonial power & patriarchy on its head through the movements of the mind and the sanity of poetry.
Sarah Riggs is a poet and artist based in Brooklyn. She received the 1913 Poetry Prize for her book Pomme & Granite and her translation of Etel Adnan’s Time won the Griffin International Prize and Best Translated Book Award. Word Sightings, her essays on the impact of visual media on US poetry, was published by Routledge. With her partner Omar Berrada, Riggs runs Tamaas, an intercultural arts organization focusing on translation, film and education, and co-edited Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets (Litmus). Written during the 2016-20 Trump presidency, along with The Nerve Epistle (Roof), Lines is her eighth book of poems.
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THURSDAY JUNE 5
7PM