Join us via Zoom to celebrate the launch of Aaron Fagan’s third poetry collection A Better Place is Hard to Find, featuring Aaron, Nick Flynn, and other guests.
A Better Place is Hard to Find can be purchased from the store—call 512-322-2097 for curbside pick up—or via our bookshop.org site.
Revealing the profusion of life “Where silence / And all possible / Outcomes bathe // In simultaneity,” the poems in Aaron Fagan’s astonishing third collection, A Better Place Is Hard to Find, carefully tune their lines, breaks, and turns of phrase to the acoustics of the author’s lived experience. A master of giving shape to thought, Fagan’s absorbing poems about love, relationships, philosophy, and his personal history reveal the intimate function poetry can hold in the course of examining one’s life.
“Aaron Fagan’s A Better Place Is Hard to Find contains some of the finest poems I’ve read in years. At once fluid, blistering, and visionary, Fagan’s poems are marvels that I admire for their beauty, their craft, and their fearlessness in the search for truth. What a poet!” —Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Aaron Fagan was born in Rochester, New York, in 1973 and educated at Hampshire College and Syracuse University. His poems have appeared in: Granta, Harper’s, Poem-A-Day, and The Yale Review. His third poetry collection, A Better Place Is Hard to Find, was published this past fall by The Song Cave.
Nick Flynn is a writer, playwright, and poet. His most recent books are This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire (2020), a hybrid memoir, and Stay: threads, collaborations, and conversations (2020), which documents twenty-five years of his collaborations with artists, filmmakers, and composers. His acclaimed 2004 memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, was made into a film starring Robert DeNiro in 2012. He is also the author of five collections of poetry, including most recently I Will Destroy You (2019). Flynn’s poems, essays, and nonfiction have appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review, and on NPR’s This American Life. His film credits include “field poet” and artistic collaborator for the film Darwin’s Nightmare, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best feature documentary in 2006. He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress, and currently teaches creative writing at the University of Houston.
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