Poetry Book Club " The Trees Witness Everything" by Victoria Chang.

117 S. Pineapple Ave.,Sarasota FL 34236

13 July, 2022

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The Poetry Book Club led by Doug Knowlton. This month’s selection is "The Trees Witness Everything" by Victoria Chang. The Poetry Book Club led by Doug Knowlton. Meeting in-person at our new store location at The Mark, 117 S. Pineapple Ave. This month’s selection is The Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang. A fee of $17 is required for participation. This includes a copy of The Trees Witness Everything to be picked up at Bookstore1 and the book club meeting. About The Trees Witness Everything: A lover of strict form, best-selling poet Victoria Chang turns to compact Japanese waka, powerfully innovating on tradition while continuing her pursuit of one of life's hardest questions: how to let go. In The Trees Witness Everything, Victoria Chang reinvigorates language by way of concentration, using constraint to illuminate and free the wild interior. Largely composed in various Japanese syllabic forms called "wakas," each poem is shaped by pattern and count. This highly original work innovates inside the lineage of great poets including W.S. Merwin, whose poem titles are repurposed as frames and mirrors for the text, stitching past and present in complex dialogue. Chang depicts the smooth, melancholic isolation of the mind while reaching outward to name--with reverence, economy, and whimsy--the ache of wanting, the hawk and its shadow, our human urge to hide the minute beneath the light. .................................................................................................................... All signed up and unable to go? Please let us know! Seating is limited and there may be people on our waitlist who would like to to take your place. Please send an email to [email protected] ASAP and hopefully we'll see you next time. Click here to go the Bookstore1Sarasota website.