let / things be; add / words, but let / things be (Inger Christensen)
We are incredibly proud to share editor Heidi Van Horn’s recent interview with DLP author Sarah Rosenthal, on the subject of her latest chapbook, WE COULD HANG A RADICAL PANEL OF LIGHT.
Visit The Brooklyn Rail for the full interview.
Read, share, enjoy.
This event is FREE.
WE COULD HANG A RADICAL PANEL OF LIGHT
Sarah Rosenthal’s we could hang a radical panel of light embodies the visibility of the poetic process, in which the tangible and intangible are held in counterbalance. Words and phrases from Rosenthal’s dream journal have been broken apart, rearranged, and placed by hand on the page, each cut-out white rectangle becoming its own panel of light. The compositional practice of collage builds a tenuous sense of structure and evokes a shifting subjectivity, a revolving, scintillating sense of meaning. “Estelle,” “she,” and “I” are all points in a constellation of a self grappling with pain and identity as they mirror, overlap, and depart from one another, traversing the vast space in which each panel has been carefully affixed.
MUSTARD
Like a breathless friend on a busy corner, Raul Ruiz’s Mustard lifts our gaze, winks, and gestures towards the sky, which is somehow filled with hummingbirds. Surreal, big-hearted, and playful, this series of prose poems documents one jaded (or maybe not yet?) poet's employment at the Libreria De Amplio Margen, "a little bookshop on a street that time was beginning to erase from us," punctuated by the author’s original line drawings. With shrewd and companionable tenderness, Ruiz catches us up in the inextricably strange and hungry experience of being human—loving, dreaming, writing—amidst the buying and selling of books.
* Note [1/29/22]: Preorders for Dream Life are SOLD OUT and have been mailed. There will possibly be 2-3 copies added to the inventory, so check back soon!
This is a virtual Drop Leaf Press event that takes place over Zoom.
NOTE: Our reading will take place from 5:30 to 6:05pm (PST), followed by a (completely optional) Talking Circle, which will be from 6:10-7pm.
REGISTER FOR FREE IN ADVANCE. After registering, you’ll receive a confirmation email with info about joining the event.
Drop Leaf Press invites you to celebrate the release of ALL OF IT, TINGED, a curated juxtaposition of the photography of Asako Shimazaki and the writing of Diana Fisher. Shimazaki’s quietly charged images from her solo wanderings across Northern Japan reflect and inflect Fisher’s diligent poetic narrative about a novitiate and her convent absorbing the results of a catastrophic national election. Supporting our featured reader, Diana Fisher, will be poems by Jennifer S. Cheng and an introduction to the book by Heidi Van Horn, editor, and Janet Bishop, Chief Curator at SFMOMA.
Following the reading, we invite you to join us for an optional 45-minute Post-Inauguration Talking Circle. In the vein of ALL OF IT, TINGED, this will be a facilitated safe space for anyone who wants to share how they are processing the impact of the recent election and the transition of power. All feelings welcome! <3
Get your own copy of ALL OF IT, TINGED, available in our store now.
