Events
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Start: 7:00 pm
Co-presented with COPPER CANYON PRESS, CONSULADO DE MÉXICO, and the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. This bilingual poetry reading features one of Mexico's major poets, David Huerta, the author of nineteen collections, now with his first major translated work to be published in the U.S. Published by Copper Canyon Press, Before Saying Any of the Great Words: Selected Poems, is a bilingual volume that finally introduces this esteemed figure to readers up here. Translator Mark Schafer will also be on hand. "David Huerta's verses ... are ornate, cerebral, bookish, apocalyptic to the point of abstraction." - Los Angeles Times Book Review. David Huerta also has a number of poems in the acclaimed Copper Canyon anthology of contemporary Mexican work, Reversible Monuments. This should all be a great pleasure. Free, no tickets necessary. The Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison and Spring). Special $5 parking coupons for the Central Library garage are available on a limited basis for those attending the reading. For more information, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, the Seattle Public Library at (206) 386-4636, or see www.spl.org.
Start: 7:30 pm
Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. Joe Sacco, world renowned cartoonist and pioneer of nonfiction, graphic narrative war reportage, makes a rare but welcome Seattle appearance tonight to talk about his striking new book, Footnotes in Gaza (Metropolitan). Set in Rafah, at the bottom of the Gaza strip, Footnotes in Gaza is both a portrayal of contemporary life in the community, and of competing versions of a 1956 incident that left 111 Palestinian soldiers dead. "Joe Sacco's brilliant, excruciating books of war reportage are potent territory ... He shows how much that is crucial to our lives a book can hold." - New York Times Book Review. "Sacco is Art Spiegelman's most talented descendant." - The Economist. Joe Sacco's previous books include Palestine (winner of an American Book Award) and the Eisner Award-winning Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992 – 1995. $5 tickets are available at the door starting at 6:30 p.m., in advance via www.brownpapertickets.com (or 1-800-838-3006). Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). Preferred seating for Town Hall members. For more information, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, Town Hall at (206) 652-4255, or see www.townhallseattle.org.
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