A New Cadence Poetry Series presents
Stephen
Kessler
in
a reading and book party for two new books
Join
Stephen Kessler in celebrating his latest book of original poems
Scratch
Pegasus
(Swan Scythe Press) and his new translation of
Poems
of Consummation by
Vicente Aleixandre (Black Widow Press)
Saturday
April 20, 2013,
7:30pm
Felix
Kulpa Gallery,
107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz
SCRATCH
PEGASUS is
a selection of new poems (2006-2012) exploring themes of time, love,
friendship, aging, teachers, art, music, “wild men” and the
streaming present of the everyday.
POEMS
OF CONSUMMATION is
Vicente Aleixandre’s late-life lyrical and metaphysical
investigation into the mysteries of youth, sex, memory, old age,
death and oblivion.
Stephen
Kessler’s
other recent books include The
Tolstoy of the Zulus (essays),
The
Sonnets by
Jorge Luis Borges (as editor and principal translator), and The
Mental Traveler (novel).
His translation of Desolation
of the Chimera by
Luis Cernuda received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from
the Academy of American Poets, and his version of Cernuda’s
collected prose poems, Written
in Water,
won a Lambda Literary Award. He is the editor of The
Redwood Coast Review,
now in its fifteenth year. www.stephenkessler.com
Vicente
Aleixandre
(1898-1984), one of Spain’s leading twentieth-century poets,
received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1977. Stephen Kessler’s
version of Poems
of Consummation, first
published in Spanish in 1968,
is the first complete translation of this book to appear in English.
Please
join us for an evening of poetry, conversation and libations.
