Poetry Zoom Book Club "A Map of the Lost World"

Bookstore1Sarasota

The Poetry Book Club led by Doug Knowlton. Meets online via Zoom. This month we are discussing "A Map of the Lost World" by Rick Hilles.

<h3>A fee of $23 is required for participation. This includes a copy of A Map of the Lost World and the Zoom book club meeting. The book can be picked up curbside or in the store (We will send you an email when the book is ready for pickup). If you would like to have the book shipped to you via USMail, the cost is $28.50. All tickets include a copy of the book, tax, fees and the virtual event.</h3><h3>Complete the registration and we will get you the book before the meeting. The Zoom link will be sent prior to the book club meeting. After you have reserved your place, look for a confirmation via email.</h3>About A Map of the Lost World:The poems that make up A Map of the Lost World range from tightly-wrought shorter lyrics to longer autobiographical narratives to patterns of homage (in several forms) of poets that Hilles admires and emulates (including Richard Hugo, James Wright, James Merrill and Larry Levis) to extended voice-driven meditations, one in the voice of a German Jewish woman, a prisoner who would escape a French concentration camp and go on to fight in the French resistance, to other efforts to confront history and not be devoured by history, and to locate, even resuscitate, friends lost to death, if only provisionally; though each poem in A Map of the Lost World is highly crafted and diversely rendered, in this collection, each poem finds its unifying impulse in it's maker's desire to span vast distances to reach loved ones, beloved others, the various families of friends, fueled by an almost gymnastic imagination that vaults itself into almost any space-going to almost any length-sustained by the various forms of love, which, after all, may be as close as any of us has come (in this or any life) to knowing and warming ourselves, if not also at times being scalded by, the immortal fires of the Infinite..................................................................................................Click <a href="https://www.sarasotabooks.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a> to go to the Bookstore1Sarasota website.

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