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URL:https://yellowspringsohio.org/events/yellow-springs-speaker-series-w-r
 oss-gay-and-janan-alexandra/
SUMMARY:Yellow Springs Speaker Series w/ Ross Gay and janan alexandra
DESCRIPTION:Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which\
 ; Bringing the Shovel Down\; Be Holding\, winner of the PEN American Lit
 erary Jean Stein Award\; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude\, winner of t
 he 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poe
 try Award. In addition to his poetry\, Ross has released three collections
  of essays—The Book of Delights was released in 2019 and was a New Yor
 k Times bestseller\; Inciting Joy was released in 2022\, and his newest
  collection\, The Book of (More) Delights was released in September of 2
 023\n\n–\n\nJanan Alexandra\n\nIn her debut poetry collection\, COME FRO
 M\, janan alexandra weaves from English into Arabic\, exploring the joint 
 projects of longing and belonging.\n\nPart love song for the speaker’s 
 mother\, part grief song for ongoing postcolonial loss\, this book reaches
  for\, around\, underneath\, and through language—feeling for its limits
  and possibilities.\n\nDrawing on both narrative and lyric impulses\, alex
 andra invites readers into a world bristling with family\, memory\, home\,
  and inheritance—all in the wake of dislocation and fracture. In one sec
 tion of the book\, we follow the speaker “back home” after years of se
 paration\; later\, we encounter a series of parables in the form of an Ar
 abic abecedarian\, through which the speaker recovers parts of her mother 
 tongue. Here\, alexandra probes the gifts and wounds of language\, invokin
 g personal and communal histories marked with the longue durée of empire.
 \n\nGet Tickets
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CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
LOCATION:The Herndon Gallery\, 1 Morgan Place\, South Hall\, Yellow Springs
 \, OH\, 45387\, United States
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