Building Bridges Poetry Book Club In-Person
Read and discuss a book of poems with others who appreciate poetry and like to take a closer look at form, structure, and craft. Discussions will be lively and interactive, and participants will have a chance to share thoughts and ask questions. Come prepared to read favorite poems, lines, and passages from the book aloud. Participants can request a library copy of the book in the registration process. You can also use your library card to get this title as a downloadable audiobook through Hoopla. (Contact library staff if you need help at 415-389-4292).
January's selection is Customs by Solmaz Sharif. The discussion will be led by David Booth.
In Customs, Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal, a continual series of checkpoints, officers, searches, and questionings that become a relentless experience of America. With resignation and austerity, these poems trace a pointed indoctrination to the customs of the nation-state and the English language, and the realities they impose upon the imagination, the paces they put us through. While Sharif critiques the culture of performed social skills and poetry itself—its foreclosures, affects, successes—she begins to write her way out to the other side of acceptability and toward freedom.
David Booth is a poet and a high school teacher for Schools of the Sacred Heart in San Francisco. Simi Press published his first book of poems, Too Bright to See, in 2021. He blogs at www.sacredpedestrians.com. He lives in SF with his wife Ingrid Hawkinson and their Calico, Bella.
- Date:
- Tuesday, January 16, 2024 Show more dates
- Time:
- 6:30pm - 7:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Pacific Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Conference Room
- Audience:
- Adults High School
- Categories:
- Book Clubs In Person Poetry