Name: PIG: BOOK LAUNCH
Start: 2023-09-17T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2023-09-17T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Gilman Brewing Company, Brewery, Berkeley, East Bay, CA

PIG: BOOK LAUNCH

Sam Sax

poetry book launch with live pigs and drag!

Gilman Brewing Company, Brewery, Berkeley, East Bay, CA

Hello! My third book of poems PIG is out this Sept! And we’re throwing a little party for the launch at @gilmanbrewing in West Berkeley Sunday Sept 17th! There’ll be live pigs, some drag, snacks and readings from some of my favorite poets. Aracelis Girmay and Hieu Minh Nguyen. Hopefully should be a bit of a debauch time.6-7 - live pig kickback / phototime.7-9 - readings signings etcHere's a review of my book:PigSam Sax. Scribner, $17 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-66801-999-3In this vivid, sensuous, and gorgeous third collection, Sax (bury it) considers the extended and various metaphors of the pig in all its forms. By using the pig as both subject and object, Sax navigates queerness, filth, beauty, and capitalism, exploring at all times “the animal yearning/ within the animal within the animal.” Sax situates the pig long before an age of wealth, greed, and violence: “pig existed before we had tongues/ to name it.” In doing so, they remind the reader that “it’s a miracle life existed here at all.” These poems celebrate all things that seek to subvert dominant structures, drawing attention to the beauty of messy, complicated states and advising that “there are so many words for you children &amp;/ none of them are dirty” and to “be disgusted into beauty.” With tenderness, a critical eye, and a longing borne from the feeling that “i’ve never been lonelier than i am/ right now,” Sax turns their rumination on the pig into a consideration of everything. Finding beauty in the lowest, filthiest things, these poems guide the audience’s gaze toward redemption. (Sept.)﻿

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