Harold Whit Williams: An Evening of Poetry & Song

When:
July 24, 2020 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
2020-07-24T19:00:00-05:00
2020-07-24T20:00:00-05:00
Cost:
Free

Malvern Books is proud to present an evening (via Zoom; details to come) with Cotton Mather guitarist and prize-winning poet Harold Whit Williams, who will be reading from his new book and performing songs from his new solo album, both titled My Heavens.

Worth noting: All royalties from the download or stream of My Heavens goes to Color of Change.

Williams returns to form on this, his fifth poetry collection. The very idea of a paradise—beyond sky or upon earth or within each moment—is poked and prodded with both sharp cynicism and wide-eyed wonder alike. Addressing grief, the day in/day out depictions are deeply distilled, the lines sober yet also playful, loose and languid. Nostalgia without sentimentality. Dreamlike visions without surrealism. These poems settle down across the kitchen table from a reader for a little give and take, a little what’s it all about? “The transubstantiation, the utter mystery,” Williams writes, “I swallow it all/And expect nothing in return.”

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