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Community Book Group with Tom Marshall
04/20/2010 7:30 pm
04/20/2010 9:00 pm
Discussion led by Julie Minnis, with guest speaker TOM MARSHALL
Book Selections: Mary Oliver’s New & Selected Poems, Volume 1 & Gary Snyder’s Turtle Island
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Our next Community Book Group celebrates--but what else in the month of April?-- poetry! We are delighted to honor National Poetry Month by selecting two acclaimed books of poetry as our community reads.
Mary Oliver’s New & Selected Poems was originally published in 1992, and Oliver was thus awarded the National Book Award. In the years since its initial appearance, this volume has become one of the bestselling collections of poetry in the country. Oliver's perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. Her passionate demonstrations of delight are powerful reminders of the bond between every individual, all living things, and the natural world.
Gary Snyder won the Pulitzer Prize for Turtle Island. With nature as their backbone, these poems range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives.
We hope you will read these two outstanding books of poetry, then join us at our event on April 20th. Our book group facilitator, Julie Minnis, will be joined by local poet and teacher Tom Marshall to discuss the poetry of Mary Oliver and Gary Snyder. They will be discussing both writers' individual work, as well as the ways that Oliver and Snyder's poetry compare to one another.
Mary Oliver’s New & Selected Poems and Gary Snyder’s Turtle Island will be discounted 10% from March 11th until the April 20th meeting date.
We hope you’ll join us!
P.S. There will be snacks and tea!
