Carolyn Hembree - RIGGING A CHEVY INTO A TIME MACHINE AND OTHER WAYS TO ESCAPE A PLAGUE
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Also check out Hembree's Love Machine for Poetry: A Workshop Experience hosted by Public Poetry on Monday, January 23 from 7:30-8:00pm.
Carolyn Hembree’s award-winning collection RIGGING A CHEVY INTO A TIME MACHINE AND OTHER WAYS TO ESCAPE A PLAGUE is a sequence of poems arranged like a truck owner’s manual. Set in rural Appalachia, “a truck up on concrete blocks” functions as time machine for V. Cleb, an accursed wanderer trapped and liberated by the limits of his world. When spiritual and material realms commingle, visions of cosmic significance are revealed. Biblical cadences, elliptical phrasing, and a deep-rooted vernacular distinguish the voice of these poems. “Through wormhole after wormhole,” the book inscribes a landscape visceral, haunted, afflicted, afflicting.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, JULY 18, AND AUGUST 8 -- 7 PM
Over a century and a half after its publication, Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary populated with several of the most unforgettable and enduring characters in literature.
We will be working through the book in sections: for our first meeting in June, read pp 1-214 (ch. 1-43). For July, please read 215-439 (ch. 44-90). And for August, read 440-end (ch. 91-135).