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| BARBARA BRACKNEY Memorial Reading Sunday, September 12 5pm @ CAKESHOP 153 Ludlow Street New York, NY http://www.polestarpoetry.com/ Hosted by Melissa Broder & Jason Schneiderman ~featuring~ LATE AUGUST by Barbara Brackney Paperback, Oct 1, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-929355-58-7 Pleasure Boat Studio $9.00 11 Poets Read from Ms. Brackney's posthumously published chapbook MELISSA BRODER JACK ESTES STACEY HARWOOD ROXANNE HOFFMAN JOAN LARKIN NICOLAS POWERS JOSEPH RIPPI PAUL ROMERO NICK POWERS JASON SCHNEIDERMAN JANICE SUSSMAN |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Barbara Brackney spent her youth living in the deep south, California, and Europe. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan and resolved to make Ann Arbor her lifetime home. After graduation, she became a professor of psychology, had a clinical private practice and spent her free time traveling. In 1998, she retired quite early, eager to explore aspects of life that working precludes. One of these avenues was poetry, which opened up an exciting world of inner exploration. Barbara developed terminal cancer but this only fueled her desire to continue in her poetry quest. She died in 2007.
PRAISE FOR LATE AUGUST:
"Late August by Barbara Bracknew does what great poetry should do: it elucidate our ephemeral human condition and brings us comfort. Her poems are clear, consise, intelligent indictments of death, illness, her own short comings, God and everything in between. But they're also exquisite and funny. She writes from a place where there's nothing to hide, and reveals an unsentimental, eternal love for our lot."
~ Jennifer L. Knox
"Brackney's space and honest work is beautifully powered by the cruel, churning motor of urgency. Balanced between deep breaths of acceptance and wornder, each poem serves as a postcard to the living, reminding the reader that death is as much a part of life as love, sex, and beauty. She asks,, "May I leave this black?" and the world answered Yes, but what remains in a recording of that black, a way through, a light."
~ Ada Limon
20% of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the Susan B. Koman Breast Cancer Foundation. A further portion (10%) will be donated to Alcoholics Anonymous.
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