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Women in Motion:
readings by Jasmine Paul & Andrea Werblin
July 13, 2003
Sandpoint’s Oden Hall will be the setting of an exceptional literary event on Sunday, 13 July at 2 pm: Lost Horse Press will present Women in Motion: summer literary readings featuring Jasmine Paul and Andrea Werblin reading from their critically acclaimed works of poetry and fiction.
After the readings, stay and enjoy David Lane Walsh’s musical offerings. A potluck and book signing are also scheduled. Everyone is encouraged to bring a dish to share at the potluck. Books by Jasmine Paul, Andrea Werblin and Lost Horse published authors will be available for purchase.
Jasmine Paul received her BA in Communications and Women’s Studies from Penn State University and her MA in Critical Studies of Film from UCLA. She has published poetry in various journals as well as a chapter in the academic text Feminism, Multiculturalism and the Media. A Girl, In Parts is her first novel.
Jasmine Paul has achieved resounding praise for her first novel, A Girl, In Parts, which chronicles a nine year old girl and her adventures in a relatively simple life peppered with unique vignettes and life-changing rites of passage. The novel is described by Kirkus Review as “A winning debut in which growing up happens fast . . .for one young girl . . . One tough heroine and a clear-eyed author willing to take her wherever she needs to go honestly and without compromise . . .”
Andrea Werblin earned her MFA in poetry from the University of Arizona. Her first book, Lullaby for One Fist, was published in 2001 by Wesleyan University Press. A second book, Polar Headache, is under completion. She currently lives and works in Sandpoint, Idaho.
Andrea Werblin’s initial collection, Lullaby for One Fist blends “ . . . hope, disaffection, humor and lyricism . . . in fresh [and] recognizably Gen-X sensibilities.” (Publisher’s Weekly) Werblin explores the anatomy of destructive relationships and the now what? at their ends. Intimate, accessible, and sharply self-conscious, these musical poems trace the arc of such a relationship, conveying the speaker’s struggle to invent freedom. They also reflect how often such inventions can reveal themselves to be trickery and self-deception, yet are at the same time very necessary practice runs and steps toward genuine independence. Werblin’s poems also speak about the slow and painstaking work of self-recovery, of the self as a burden one carries, and of the self as a previously unoccupied and unfamiliar territory into which one slowly makes her way. Metallic and pointed, yet fluid, these poems course strongly through the emotional veins; they brace and jar melodically as steady, illuminating undercurrents rise from the syntax in a contrapuntal dance and shed sudden and intense beams of light on the confusing and intensely human experience of extricating ourselves from ties that damage.
Don’t miss this opportunity to delight in a celebration of both written and spoken word on Sunday, 13 July at 2 pm. Admission is free, although donations are encouraged. For additional information regarding Women in Motion or any of Lost Horse Press’ future literary events, call 208.255.4410.
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