Book Talk, Metates and Other Poems

Name: Book Talk, Metates and Other Poems
Start: 2025-11-03T10:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-11-03T12:30:00-06:00
Location: 1204 Johnston St., Lafayette, LA, United States, Louisiana 70503

Schedule

Mon Nov 03 2025 at 10:30 am to 12:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

1204 Johnston St., Lafayette, LA, United States, Louisiana 70503 | Lafayette, LA

Join us for a Book Talk with Dr. Catharine Savage Brosman.
Dr. Brosman is known throughout America as a poet, essayist, writer of short fiction, and literary historian of both French and American literature. She is professor emerita of French at Tulane University.

Metates is a book of poetic landscapes from Virginia and Florida westward to west Texas, Colorado, Arizona, and Hawaii.
Urban settings similarly have their place, with examples from Paris and New Orleans. More broadly, the book is about what is given to us in the way of scenes, circumstances, and bodies, and our connections to all that. Landscapes and other settings are not inert; they are what we attempt to make of them. Metates is, therefore, about us and our responses to what we encounter.
“In Metates, Brosman reminds us that this passing through we call a life is made of holy encounters at every turn. The poems are delivered in a voice that aspires to ‘sing my affinities as in a chapel.’ The fields it applies are the fields of being: experience, observation, memory, desire, love, and lovely physical world we live in.” — Darrell Bourque, Louisiana Poet Laureate, 2007-2011
“Brosman gives us yet another excellent collection, filled with superbly right metaphors … suggesting that, for this poet, ‘Such perspectives / support order in the mind, design / a field for acts’ (from ‘Clearwater Beach,’ one of the finest poems in the book) … There can be no question whatsoever that Brosman is one of the most important poets in America today.” — Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese, George Washington University.
This event is free and open to the public. There is limited parking in our Roy House lot. There are ParkMobile lots walking distance from the Roy House along University Avenue.