Monthly Archive for November, 2009
We’re excited to have poet Franklin Abbott visit the store for a book signing this Saturday at 1 p.m. Here’s a little info:
Franklin Abbott is a poet and psychotherapist who lives and works in Atlanta. He believes that there is poetry in good therapy and therapy in good poetry. Pink Zinnia is his sixth book and second book of poems and stories. He writes about the natural world and creates portraits of friends and teachers with humor and soulfulness. The books title was inspired by the humble zinnia that his paternal grandmother grew in abundance. Pink was her favorite color.
And here’s a poem for your reading pleasure:
Why We Pray
if your luck goes bad
get a witch to give you
a bath
get a shaman to cook
your supper
get a high priestess
to do your hair
get a siren to sing you
a lullaby
all ritual is illogical
and impractical
but when it works
the absurd
becomes
the sublime
The Dog Ear Book Club will be reading Jim Harrison’s latest novel, The English Major for our next meeting on Dec. 7th at 7 p.m.
Here’s a bit on the book:
“It used to be Cliff and Vivian and now it isn’t.” With these words, Jim Harrison sends his sixty-something protagonist, divorced and robbed of his farm by a late-blooming real estate shark of an ex-wife, on a road trip across America, armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States and a mission to rename all the states and state birds to overcome the banal names men have given them. Cliff’s adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student from his high school-teacher days twenty-some years before, to a “snake farm” in Arizona owned by an old classmate; and to the high-octane existence of his son, a big-time movie producer in San Francisco.
As always, anyone is welcome to attend the book club and enjoy some wine and literary conversation. Copies of the book are now available at a discount of 10%.
Hope to see you there.