ingracious windpipes

C. Asa Call presents a book launch of their third self-published collection of poems ingracious windpipes: A Symposium for Ghosts Still Forced to Make a Living. The evening will include a reading from the book, which has been hand-crafted as a small edition run, and installation-based performances exploring central themes from the collection.

With dancers Sara Caplan, Rainbow Fletcher, Nicole Flores, Madeline Gregor, and Shayley Timm.

About the Book

Biting, seething, morose, and sometimes manic tones emerge from a diverse group of characters in this new collection of poems. An owner of a truckstop diner in Tennessee, a knight who duels the Jabberwocky, an Odysseus-like sailor caught up by a siren, an old woman who wears chainmail under her bathrobe. These characters are stubborn, often grieving, and full of grudges, but also surprisingly playful, revealing an absurd sense that kindness and tenderness can only dazzle through most genuinely when the blunt vents of our inner dialogue are opened wide.

Bio

C. Asa Call is an assemblage artist making work for 20+ years at the cross-section of poetry, visual art, film, and dance. They were a Co-founder and Co-artistic Director of Coriolis Dance for 14 years. Their previous poetry collections The Mountain? The Mountain. and cede the crown palaver (failed attempts false starts, and a sincere apology were self-published releases. Call currently owns and operates The Shed, a multi-use art and movement space in Georgetown of Seattle, WA.

Chapbook details

Chapbooks can be pre-ordered for $25 as an add-on when you purchase tickets and will be available at the event for $30.

Host or Publisher Christin Call