Rajiv Mohabir and Daniel Ruiz In Conversation

Schedule

Thu Nov 20 2025 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Boulder Bookstore | Boulder, CO

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Rajiv Mohabir and Daniel Ruiz will speak about and sign their new books, "Seabeast" and "Reality Checkmate," at Boulder Bookstore.
About this Event

Rajiv Mohabir and Daniel Ruiz will speak about and sign their new books, Seabeast and Reality Checkmate, on Thursday, November 20th at 6:30pm, at Boulder Bookstore.

About Seabeast:

Organized as an alphabetical bestiary, Seabeast lyrically catalogues whale species by common name and behaviors, resulting in a poetic compendium that defies pathetic fallacy even as it sings the similarities between homo sapiens and the marine mammoths that have long captured our fascination.

In his fifth full-length collection, Rajiv Mohabir winds together the threads of cetacean evolution, natural history, animal migration, and human culture and colonization as they concern the endurance of all species. In anthropomorphizing these complex mammals, Mohabir argues, we overwrite and erase their sublime difference and selfhood, their distinct and separate experience of embodiment. Yet, in refusing to recognize the familiarities of whale behavior and social patterns, we subjugate these magnificent creatures, affirming a hierarchy that establishes anything inhuman as inherently less than human and enabling cruelty toward all manner of living things.


About Reality Checkmate:

A dynamic and philosophical debut collection, Daniel Ruiz’s Reality Checkmate choreographs the endless wrestling match between lyrical sensibility and ontological principles taking place on the mind’s stage. These poems exquisitely demonstrate that phenomena in the material world are rarely as simple as they seem and yet must continually confront the universe’s countermove—the constraints of life itself, the knowledge that all we truly have is the present moment and the face value of our perceptions.

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IMPORTANT TICKETING AND EVENT INFORMATION
  • Tickets are $5 (plus a small processing fee).
  • A coupon good for $5 off a copy of Seabeast or Reality Checkmate, or a purchase on the day of the event is included with your ticket. You will receive this coupon at the event.
  • Please note: our events are held on the second floor. To request a reasonable accommodation or discuss your needs, contact [email protected]

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Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl Street, Boulder, United States

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