New books from & tributes to Jordan & Merwin
Wednesday September 28, 2005
from Copper Canyon Press, with thanks to Diana Manister for forwarding the announcement:
“Please join us for--and help spread the word about--two extraordinary tributes that will take place in early October:
A Tribute to the Work of June Jordan
Thursday, October 6, 7:30 pm
With special guests Adrienne Rich, Yusef Komunyakaa, Cornelius Eady, Laura Flanders, Bob Holman, Joy Harjo, and others; emcees are Jan Heller Levi and Sara Miles, the editors of June Jordan’s new collected poems, Directed by Desire.
Hunter College, New York City
The Kaye Playhouse, 695 Park Avenue
(68th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues)
Admission $12 ($7 for Poetry Society of America members and students)
A Tribute to W. S. Merwin
Monday, October 10, 8:00 pm
With special guests Lucille Clifton, Edward Hirsch, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gerald Stern and W. S. Merwin.
92nd Street Y, New York City
Kaufmann Concert Hall (Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street)
General admission $17
New books from W. S. Merwin and June Jordan:
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan, edited by Jan Heller Levi and Sara Miles, foreword by Adrienne Rich.
“Jordan…is among the bravest of us, the most outraged. She feels for all. She is the universal poet.” —Alice Walker
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan gathers the work from Jordan’s ten books of poetry and features many never-before-published poems—including a tender, fierce, and innovative collection of poems written before her death, in 2002, from breast cancer.
Migration: New and Selected Poems, by W. S. Merwin
“Merwin is one of the great poets of our age.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
W. S. Merwin is an artist who transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. Migration: New and Selected Poems is the definitive volume of his poetry.
Present Company, by W. S. Merwin
In this new masterwork, W. S. Merwin guides readers to universal themes through worldly specifics. Similar in tone and effect to Pablo Neruda’s Elemental Odes, every poem in Present Company directly addresses the human encounters and ordinary objects of daily life. Whether writing of an imaginary vehicle in “To Zbigniew Herbert’s Bicycle” or watching fireworks from a distance in “To the Coming Winter,” these new poems create a rare and compelling intimacy.”
Related resources:
Our reference page on June Jordan
The June Jordan School for Equity
“June Jordan, Kenneth Koch, Philip Whalen: The Deaths of Spring” (2002)
“June Jordan, Ruth Yarrow: Poems To Rebuild Kosovo” (1999)
“Please join us for--and help spread the word about--two extraordinary tributes that will take place in early October:
A Tribute to the Work of June Jordan
Thursday, October 6, 7:30 pm
With special guests Adrienne Rich, Yusef Komunyakaa, Cornelius Eady, Laura Flanders, Bob Holman, Joy Harjo, and others; emcees are Jan Heller Levi and Sara Miles, the editors of June Jordan’s new collected poems, Directed by Desire.
Hunter College, New York City
The Kaye Playhouse, 695 Park Avenue
(68th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues)
Admission $12 ($7 for Poetry Society of America members and students)
A Tribute to W. S. Merwin
Monday, October 10, 8:00 pm
With special guests Lucille Clifton, Edward Hirsch, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gerald Stern and W. S. Merwin.
92nd Street Y, New York City
Kaufmann Concert Hall (Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street)
General admission $17
New books from W. S. Merwin and June Jordan:
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan, edited by Jan Heller Levi and Sara Miles, foreword by Adrienne Rich.
“Jordan…is among the bravest of us, the most outraged. She feels for all. She is the universal poet.” —Alice Walker
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan gathers the work from Jordan’s ten books of poetry and features many never-before-published poems—including a tender, fierce, and innovative collection of poems written before her death, in 2002, from breast cancer.
Migration: New and Selected Poems, by W. S. Merwin
“Merwin is one of the great poets of our age.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
W. S. Merwin is an artist who transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. Migration: New and Selected Poems is the definitive volume of his poetry.
Present Company, by W. S. Merwin
In this new masterwork, W. S. Merwin guides readers to universal themes through worldly specifics. Similar in tone and effect to Pablo Neruda’s Elemental Odes, every poem in Present Company directly addresses the human encounters and ordinary objects of daily life. Whether writing of an imaginary vehicle in “To Zbigniew Herbert’s Bicycle” or watching fireworks from a distance in “To the Coming Winter,” these new poems create a rare and compelling intimacy.”
Related resources:
Our reference page on June Jordan
The June Jordan School for Equity
“June Jordan, Kenneth Koch, Philip Whalen: The Deaths of Spring” (2002)
“June Jordan, Ruth Yarrow: Poems To Rebuild Kosovo” (1999)
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