Powell's Presents: Emma Ruth Rundle

Name: Powell's Presents: Emma Ruth Rundle
Start: 2025-02-21T19:00:00-08:00
Location: Powell's Books, Inc. (Powell's City of Books)

Schedule

Fri, 21 Feb, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Powell's Books, Inc. (Powell's City of Books) | Portland, OR

With "The Bella Vista", Emma Ruth Rundle turns to language as the best and perhaps only tool suitable to express, in her words, “the tenderness and brutality of romantic love.”
Written on the road and in the air between tour locations, the chronological, self-referential poems of The Bella Vista follow a relationship from its enthralling genesis through its twisted convulsions and the devastation of its dissolution; culminating, eventually, with a sort of peace.
The collection is a concept album, an addiction memoir, a family tree, and a love letter all at once — to music, mistakes, and womanhood; to cross-country drives and other artists and the long road to finding oneself.
Note: This event is free and open to the public. The author will be reading passages from her new book, and you’ll have the opportunity to get your copy signed at the end. No live music is planned at the moment.