[CW-Grad] Fwd: The Ravenous Audience Book Launch: : MFA alumna Kate Durbin + that Abani fellow

[D Charles Whitney]

>
> THE RAVENOUS AUDIENCE BOOK LAUNCH
>
> Thursday, October 15, 2009
> 7:30pm - 8:30pm	
> Skylight Books
> 1818 N. Vermont Ave.
> Los Angeles, CA
>
>  The launch event for Kate Durbin's debut poetry collection, The  
> Ravenous
> Audience, featuring Chris Abani, curator of the Black Goat poetry  
> series and
> acclaimed author and poet.
>
> Blurbs for The Ravenous Audience:
>
> "Christianity or cuisine, cinema or sex manuals, Eros or Thanatos,  
> Artaud or
> Marilyn Monroe? Marry or suture or eat all of them and you are  
> close to
> Ravenous. A brutal tour de force."--Juan Felipe Herrera, author of  
> Half of the
> World in Light: New and Selected Poems
>
> "Durbin's debut volume sizzles . . . Throughout this deeply feminist,
> groundbreaking collection, she employs both the elemental forces of  
> her
> intellect and a vigorous intensity of startling imagery to implode  
> or explode
> conventional notions of sexuality and womanhood . . . This is a  
> book that singes
> the fingertips."--Maurya Simon, author of Cartographies
>
> Bios:
>
> Chris Abani curates the Black Goat Press imprint of Akashic Books.  
> His prose
> includes Song For Night (Akashic, 2007), The Virgin of Flames  
> (Penguin, 2007),
> Becoming Abigail (Akashic, 2006), GraceLand (FSG, 2004), and  
> Masters of the
> Board (Delta, 1985). His poetry collections are Hands Washing Water  
> (Copper
> Canyon, 2006), Dog Woman (Red Hen, 2004), Daphne's Lot (Red Hen,  
> 2003), and
> Kalakuta Republic (Saqi, 2001). He is a Professor at the University  
> of California,
> Riverside and the recipient of the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award,  
> the Prince
> Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a
> Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond the Margins Award, the PEN
> Hemingway Book Prize & a Guggenheim Award.
>
> Kate Durbin is the author of the poetry collection The Ravenous  
> Audience (Black
> Goat/Akashic 2009), as well as the chapbook Fragments Found in a 1937
> Aviator’s Boot (Dancing Girl Press 2009). Her poetry has appeared  
> or is
> forthcoming in various journals and anthologies, including Drunken  
> Boat, Action
> Yes, diode, and Boxcar Poetry Review. She lives in Whittier, CA.


D Charles Whitney, Professor and Chair
Department of Creative Writing, 4119 INTS
U of California, Riverside CA 92521
951.827.6076    FAX 951.827.3619


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