Sarah Ghazal Ali: "Theophanies", with Aracelis Girmay and Danusha Laméris
Schedule
Mon Jun 17 2024 at 06:00 pm
Location
Pegasus Books Downtown | Berkeley, CA
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On Monday, June 17th at 7pm, please join us at Pegasus Books Downtown to celebrate Bay Area poet Sarah Ghazal Ali's acclaimed debut collection, "Theophanies" (Alice James Books, 2024). Joined by fellow northern California poets Aracelis Girmay and Danusha Lameris, Ali will read from, discuss, and sign copies of her book, available for purchase at the event. It's sure to be a special night of poetry, conversation, and community—see you there!
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"Ali's is one of the most sure-footed debuts I've had the pleasure to encounter in many years. Wrought with precision, control, and an astute humility before the wondrous, the profound and profane, these poems feel crafted from the sum total of history, then realized at the crest of the poet's matrix of experiences. A truly fearless and tender gem of a collection."
—Ocean Vuong
”That god's words would be splintered into many forms and tongues is inevitable and appropriate. This book utilizes many forms, ancient and new, to contend with the long legacy of a multitude of spiritual traditions: the expulsion from the divine, living in gendered bodies, the fate of humans to live as mortal. There's music aplenty here to accompany difficult truths, and that is really all one can ask of god or garden or ghazal.”
—Kazim Ali
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Where is it happening?
Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Ave,Berkeley,CA,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
