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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Passing along a note from Judy Kronenfeld, lecturer emerita:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Greetings!<br>
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I will be reading from my just released book of poems, <i>Shimmer, </i>on Thursday evening, Feb. 2nd, at the Downtown Riverside Public Library, 3581 Mission Avenue, Riverside, 92501. The reading starts at 7 P.M. I'm attaching the poster for the event, which
is sponsored by the Inlandia Institute. I'm also attaching the press kit for <i>
Shimmer</i>, but knowing how busy your lives are, I'll include the blurbs right here:<br>
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<span style="color:#000099">Judy Kronenfeld is a Southern Californian/Ex-New Yorker who’s crossed geographies and decades with her eyes and her heart open. In these fine poems she gives us the fruits of her journeying, some as close to home as the checkout
line where we stand “ambivalent as mid-afternoon” and some so globally empathetic that she can write about the mothers of “martyred” babies on one side and soldiers on the other—war victims both: “The romance / of a meaningful death must be so brief.” Kronenfeld’s
nearly photographic eye knows that “…night falls fast, / so fast, piling up in steep/soft drifts, canceling / cornice, column, piling up / in streets of ash and embers” and yet her poems show us how careful attention continues to enrich us—“You still see nothing
/ that is not there, / but now you sense everything / that is.” </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:#000099"> —Deborah Bogen</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:#000099">Judy Kronenfeld’s <i>Shimmer</i> radiates a fierce clarity of vision: the glow of the title is fed by intensities of memory and desire, love and rage. I’m deeply moved by these powerfully voiced poems that oscillate between evocations
of an earlier world—the “crumbling Bronx,” the “white noise” of the city—and the new realm of age, loss, and reconciliation to which we all must come.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:#000099"> —Sandra M. Gilbert</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#330033">I look forward to seeing you!<br>
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt">All good wishes,<br>
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt">Judy<br>
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