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To celebrate the publication of the 2004 winner of The Idaho Prize—HURRY
BACK • poems by Alvin Greenberg—a book launching, reading,
book sale, and book signing will take place at The Log Cabin
Literary Center in Boise, Idaho on Thursday, 21 April at 7:30 pm.
Mr. Greenberg will read from his new collection, HURRY BACK;
refreshments will be served; copies of the book will be for sale;
and Mr. Greenberg will sign copies of his book. Admission is $4
for members of the Log Cabin Literary Center, $6 for non-members,
and free for students with ID.
Please contact Lost Horse Press for
additional information at 208.255.4410 or email losthorsepress@mindspring.com.
Writer Stephen Dunn says of Greenberg's HURRY
BACK, "Here are Alvin Greenberg’s poems of experience, his
grown man’s tribute to negative capability. He knows we live in
a world of indeterminacy, with our various ignorances and failures
of language. Yet without prettying-up these conditions, his Hurry
Back offers an unsentimental, clear-eyed paean to them, a kind
of “elegiac lean-to/set right out in the weather because the weather’s/what
there is and where we do our loving.” Though such sagacity pervades
this book, these are not poems of resignation. Greenberg knows the
birds on the highway “almost always” fly up in time, but he’s not
going to let that “almost” stop him from driving a little over the
speed limit."
Alvin Greenberg is a poet, fiction writer, essayist,
and librettist. His new novel, Time Lapse, was published
in 2003 by Tupelo Press, and The University of Utah Press published
his collection of personal essays, The Dog of Memory: A Family
Album of Secrets and Silences, in 2002. His most recent collection
of short stories, How the Dead Live, appeared in 1998 from
Graywolf Press; previous collections include The Man in the
Cardboard Mask (Coffee House Press), Delta q (University
of Missouri Press), and The Discovery of America (Louisiana
State University Press). His collections of poetry include Why
We Live with Animals (Coffee House Press), Heavy Wings
(Ohio Review Press), and In/Direction (David R. Godine).
He has also collaborated on three operas with composer Eric
Stokes, most recently Apollonia’s Circus (premiered
at the University of Minnesota, 1994). After teaching for thirty-four
years in the Macalester College English Department in St. Paul,
Minnesota, he now lives in Boise, Idaho, where his wife, poet Janet
Holmes, teaches in the MFA program at Boise State University.
Please look for details of The Idaho Prize 2005
or call 208.255.4410.
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