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. 

November's selection: Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson. The discussion will be led by Doreen Stock.

The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.
Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, finding solace behind the lens of his camera and in the arms of a young man named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. When Herakles reappears years later, Geryon confronts again the pain of his desire and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative imagination to its fullest extent. By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively simple, Autobiography of Red is a profoundly moving portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is.

Fairfax, California poet and memoir practitioner, DOREEN STOCK, recently launched A Noise in the Garden, Kelsay Books, 2022 along with Excellency/Free Will, a book of translations from the Spanish of Amparo Casasbella Alconada, Prosa American Editores, Buenos Aires, and Bye Bye Blackbird, The Poetry Box, April, 2021. Tango Man, a chapbook of love poems, was released by Finishing Line Press in August, 2020. Other recent works include: My Name is Y, an anti-nuclear memoir, February 2019, Three Tales from the Archives of Love, 2018, and Talking with Marcelo, 2017, all from Norfolk Press, San Francisco. In Place of Me, Poems edited and introduced by Jack Hirschman, was published in 2015 by Mine Gallery Editions. Doreen is a founding member of the Marin Poetry Center. For more information, please visit doreenstock.com

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. 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 (no queues). Contact library staff if you need help.
 

In collaboration with the Marin Poetry Center