We’d like to invite you to join Malvern’s Line/Break Poetry Book Club! Hosted by Malvernian Claire, this is a reading group for those of you interested in exploring works from our expansive poetry section.
This meeting will take place via Zoom. If you’d like to join in the online chat, PLEASE RSVP becky@malvernbooks.com with “poetry book club” in the subject line. The book can be purchased via our online store, or call us on 512-322-2097 for curbside pick up or to make an appointment to visit.
On Saturday, August 28th, at 1pm we’ll be discussing Dreaming Escape by Valentina Saraçini, translated by Erica Weitzman.
“In Erica Weitzman’s resolute translation, Valentina Saraçini’s staccato-grammared voice sketches a double space—the pulsing emotional landscape of resistance, negation, revision, set in a particular place of trees, stones, gods, color, history. A subtle navigational chart to an inner coast of Albania we have not known of until now.”—Natasa Durovicova
“This collection of Albanian poetry from Kosovo does a wonderful job of bringing a fascinating and important but little-known European literature to a broader audience. The translations are fluid and faithful, rendering beautifully in English both the sense and the sentiment of the original Albanian, which itself is deeply affecting.”—Victor A. Friedman, University of Chicago
Join Zoom meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82233102045?pwd=SThoQUdCMjJJNlFweUM0UDFsV1pSUT09
Meeting ID: 822 3310 2045
Passcode: 932784
I will make every effort to join you on Saturday. If I can’t because of family obligations please keep me on the list for next poetry book club
Hope you can join, and if not, we’ll definitely keep you on the list for next time!