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Start: 7:00 pm
He never played in Seattle (they weren't doing interleague play in 1969, the year of the Seattle Pilots), but James Hirsch's captivating life and times biography, Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend (Simon & Schuster), is playing plenty big here. This labor of love work, years in the making, drawn from numerous interviews with those who have played with and against Mays, been part of his wife (family, friends), and Willie Mays himself, who gave cooperation and authorization, is an eye-opening social history as it is also a sweeping story of one player and his outsized impact on baseball from the late 1940s on up to the early 1970s. "Play after play, year after year, he thrilled us with his unmatched combination of speed and power, skill and daring. Hirsch tells us Willie's compelling story, form his humblest of beginnings in Alabama to his rise, in the face of immense prejudice, to become one of Major League Baseball's early African American players to his becoming an enduring American icon as the 'Say Hey Kid.'" – Bill Clinton. "It's really a pleasure to read the true facts about the life and career of the greatest center fielder of all time." – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Start: 7:00 pm
Presented by the GARDNER CENTER FOR ASIAN ART & IDEAS, SEATTLE ASIAN ART MUSEUM. The publication of an unprecedented new anthology of Chinese writers brings noted poet, translator, and teacher Arthur Sze back to Seattle for what should be a delightful afternoon presentation and discussion. Chinese Writers on Writing (Trinity University Press), the newest volume in a series that also includes Hebrew, Mexican, Irish, and Polish writers, present a considerable array of Chinese poets and prose writers, some of whom have been published very little in English translation, and others, such as Yu Hua, Mo Yan, and Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian, who have been published more widely here. Arthur Sze, editor of Chinese Writers on Writing, is most recently the author of the poetry collection, The Ginkgo Light (Copper Canyon). Expected to be here also are acclaimed Chinese poet and editor Zhang Er, up from Olympia and Evergreen State College, and Seattle-based translator Andrea Lingenfelter. Er is most recently author of the bilingually-published collection, So Translating Rivers and Cities (Zephyr), and has also recently co-edited a major anthology (also bilingual), Another Kind of Nation: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Talisman House). Lingenfelter has translated numerous contemporary Chinese novelists and poets, most recent being a first book in English of major poet Zhai Yongming, The Changing Room (Zephyr). Free, with museum admission. The Seattle Asian Art Museum is at 1400 E. Prospect Street in Volunteer Park. For more information on this and other Gardner Center programs, please see www.seattleartmuseum.org.
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