The Elliott Bay Book Company

ELLIOTT BAY BOOK GROUP
Tuesday, January 5 at 6:30 p.m.

Each month, the Elliott Bay Book Club reads and discusses the best in contemporary fiction with the occasional classic thrown in for good measure. School for Love by Olivia Manning is our selection this month. Jerusalem in 1945 is a city in flux: refugees from the war in Europe fill its streets and cafés, the British colonial mandate is coming to an end, and tensions are on the rise between the Arab and Jewish populations. Felix Latimer, a recently orphaned teenager, arrives in Jerusalem from Baghdad, biding time until he can secure passage to England. Adrift and deeply lonely, Felix has no choice but to room in a boardinghouse run by Miss Bohun, a relative he has never met. Miss Bohun is a holy terror, a cheerless miser who proclaims the ideals of a fundamentalist group known as the Ever-Readies—joy, charity, and love—even as she makes life a misery for her boarders. Then Mrs. Ellis, a fascinating young widow, moves into the house and disrupts its dreary routine for good. A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel calls it, "A subtle and touching novel....The feelings of a sensitive and warmhearted boy, as well as his occasional sillinesses, are captured by Manning with great sympathy and without sentimentality."

DOUGLAS PRESTON
Tuesday, January 5 at 7 p.m.

Best-selling thriller author Douglas Preston gets things in the New Year off to an edgy start with this appearance for his newest, Impact (Forge). Wyman Ford, a former monk who became a CIA operative, and figured in 2005's Tyrannosaur Canyon and 2008's Blasphemy, returns to take on a secret expedition to Cambodia, ostensibly the source of mysterious gemstones that don't appear to be made of the natural world. That's where things begin ... "Douglas Preston's wildly creative novels expertly blend real science and heart-stopping thrills. He is, quite simply, the new and improved Michael Crichton." - Tess Gerritsen. "Brilliant ... full of huge ideas, but intensely human, too, and intensely suspenseful." - Lee Child.

MERCEDES YAEGER
Thursday, January 7 at 7 p.m.

Mercedes Yaeger pretty much grew up in and around Seattle's Pike Place Market—it being big in her life from the age of seven on. Like many others, she owns and operates her own individual, 'small' enterprise there. But Mercedes Yaeger's business is likely unlike any other: she owns and operates Market Ghost Tours (www.seattleghost.com). The tour and her recent book, Market Ghost Stories: Meet the Souls of Seattle, tells stories of spirits (and more) that still linger in particular places. There are many secret histories—and mysteries—here. This should be enlightening—and fun.

SIBYL JAMES
Friday, January 8 at 7 p.m.

Sibyl James is a Seattle poet and teacher. She is also a poet and teacher of the world—she has had teaching residencies in Mexico, Cote d'Ivoire, Tunisia, and China, to name a few. A three-time recipient of Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowships, the author of two memoirs, and numerous poetry collections, she reads here in this still, very new year, for her newest collection of poems, China Beats (Egress Studio Press). "Sibyl James ... becomes deeply steeped in China during her year teaching there. Its reality mixes with her Westerner's consciousness in unique ways. James moves between dragons and Buddhas, Chinese and English, between being teacher and student, listening for the underlying rhythm of all and rendering it in sensitive and elegant poems." - Judith Roche. "Of those American poets who have written movingly of China while traveling and/or teaching there—including Lois Baker, Willis Barnstone, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Hansen, and very early on, Eunice Tietjens—none have written finer lyrics than Sibyl James in her collection, China Beats. James' poems are ... poems that in their depth of feeling, tautly tuned music, and keenness of detail touch to the quick of Chinese culture." - Michael O'Connor.

CAROL KAESUK YOON
Saturday, January 9 at 2 p.m.

Here from her Bellingham home is noted New York Times science writer Carol Yoon. Her book, Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science (W.W. Norton), is an exuberant account of the perception and ordering of species, that has been much admired by scientists and lay readers alike. While documenting the development of scientific taxonomy, she became interested in umwelt, how animals (including humans) perceive the world in a way she describes as "idiosyncratic to each species, fueled by its particular sensory and cognitive powers and limited by its deficits." Praised everywhere from the prestigious journal, Nature, to O Magazine, Naming Nature was named one of the best books of 2009 by New Scientist. "Yoon has a gift for making nature beautiful and the scientists who study it both passionate and occasionally hilarious. A great read." – New Scientist.

ELLIOTT BAY GLOBAL ISSUES & ETHICS BOOK GROUP
Tuesday, January 12 at 6:30 p.m.

Our Global Issues & Ethics Book Group is devoted to discussing books that cover the most relevant topics of our everyday lives. Our first selection of the year is A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery by E. Benjamin Skinner. There are more slaves in the world today than at any time in history. After spending four years visiting a dozen countries where slavery flourishes, Skinner tells the story, in gripping narrative style, of individuals who live in slavery, those who have escaped from bondage, those who own or traffic in slaves, and the mixed political motives of those who seek to combat the crime. The Washington Post said, "[Skinner's] book is meant both to inform and to enrage—and it succeeds on both counts." and Walter Russell Mead called it, "A riveting, haunting book about slavery that brings readers face to face with the slaves—and slave masters and dealers—of today. From the deserts of Sudan to the slums of Haiti and the brothels of Europe and Asia, Skinner takes us inside the trade in human flesh—now flourishing as never before in world history. A Crime So Monstrous also introduces us to the abolitionists today: ordinary human beings who have decided this ancient evil must finally be brought to an end. The book will shock you, anger you and make you care."

BRYANT SIMON
Thursday, January 14 at 7 p.m.

Temple University historian Bryant Simon has taken particular slices of contemporary life, and used them to tell larger, social stories. He did this with his book on Atlantic City's Boardwalk, Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America, and he does it now in his newest, Everything But the Coffee: Learning About America from Starbucks (University of California Press), for which he visits Starbucks' hometown. "Simon knows more about Starbucks—and about why so many Americans find perfection in their lattes—than anyone. He connects our deepest desires to be good, smart, ethical consumers with our equally strong yearning to consume in an authentic way. Our coffee, Simon shows, is us." - Sharon Zukin.

SEATTLE OPERA presents IL TROVATORE
Friday, January 15 at 7:30 p.m.

Presented by SEATTLE OPERA. As has been the case for years, the evening before the curtain rises on a new Seattle Opera production—in this instance Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore—Elliott Bay has played host to an "aspects of the opera" discussion featuring Seattle Opera General Director Speight Jenkins. This does happen tonight—and should be as engaging and stimulating as always. But the evening is markedly different as it is the first one presented here after the untimely passing of Seattle Opera Education Director Perry Lorenzo on December 19. It was Perry Lorenzo who first came to us—and many other places in the community—to see about bringing opera, and opera awareness/partisanship/devotion wherever it might find harbor. He will be missed by all who met, or knew him. For more about Perry Lorenzo, please see www.seattleopera.org. Il Trovatore is scheduled for eight performances, January 16 - 24 at McCaw Hall. $5 admission for this evening, payable at the door, and handled by Seattle Opera. For more information, please see www.seattleopera.org, or call (206) 389-7676.

SPECULATIONS - ELLIOTT BAY SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY BOOK GROUP
Tuesday, January 19 at 6:30 p.m.

As the literature of ideas and imagination, Science Fiction and Fantasy simply demands discussion. Our selection for January is Anathem by Neal Stephenson. For ten years Fraa Erasmas, a young avout, has lived in a cloistered sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside world. But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the brink of cataclysmic change—and Erasmas will become a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his world, as he follows his destiny to the most inhospitable corners of the planet...and beyond. Time said, "What ever happened to the great novel of ideas? It has morphed into science fiction, and Stephenson is its foremost practioner." and Locus called the book, "Clever and intricate...Truly ingenious...Its brilliance is undeniable."

JACQUELINE POWERS
Wednesday, January 20 at 7 p.m.

Co-presented with SUSTAINABLE SEATTLE. Interior designer and general contractor Jacqueline Powers presents guidance for homeowners wanting to turn their homes into green living spaces. Her book locally published book, Transitioning to Green, explains the types of "green" services and products available, and how to make decisions based on cost and sustainability when doing basic home remodeling. This is one of a series of courses to be offered at a variety of sites around Seattle with support from Sustainable Seattle (www.sustainableseattle.org).

AUDREY NIFFENEGGER
Thursday, January 21 at 7 p.m.

An autumn's worth of travels hither and yon finally get acclaimed author and artist Audrey Niffenegger to Seattle. As close here as Vancouver back in October, she is welcome whenever she is here. She is here with Her Fearful Symmetry (Scribner), her harrowing much-praised tale of twin sisters gone to see their late mother's twin sister in London. There, mysteries are many, in their unwrapping and unfolding. "Niffenegger slowly draws out the relationship between the indolent young twins in a strange dance that's alternately charming and sinister ... Their sisterly devotion sounds sweet until it seems suffocating, with a touch of incestuous frisson that would leave Edgar Allan Poe queasy ... keep the children away and dust off the Ouija board; you're about to make contact with something deliciously creepy." - Ron Charles, Washington Post. "Lovers of Niffenegger's past work [The Time Traveler's Wife] should rejoice. This outing may not be as blindly romantic as The Time Traveler's Wife, but it is mature, complex and convincing—a dreamy yet visceral tale of loves both familial and erotic, a search for the self in the midst of obsession with an Other." - Susann Cokal.

ANN PUTNAM
Friday, January 22 at 7:30 p.m.

"What consolation is there in growing old, in such loss?" asks Ann Putnam, who was witness and caregiver to her mother, father, and her father's twin brother as they reached old age and eventually died. Full Moon at Noontide: A Daughter's Last Goodbye (Southern Methodist University Press) is also her story, as she helps these elders move first into a retirement community and then through illnesses and hospice. "Old age, death and impermanence—it seems at first glance impossible to make a reader see these timeless and universal experiences with fresh eyes, but Ann Putnam's luminous prose achieves that miracle and more, transforming pain, suffering, and loss into a literary gift of beauty and redemption." - Charles Johnson. Ann Putnam teaches creative writing and gender studies at the University of Puget Sound.

ALAN RINZLER
Saturday, January 23 at 2 p.m.

We occasionally present speakers who work within the world of publishing, and today we're pleased to host a talk by Alan Rinzler, a publishing veteran who has for the past fifteen years served as an executive editor at Jossey-Bass. The topic of his talk today is "Why There's Never Been a Better Time for Writers Who Want to Get Published." He'll speak about book publishing from the inside, dispelling myths, confronting realities, and explaining what current changes mean for writers wanting to be published in this volatile business. He will also speak about presenting proposals and manuscripts in an effective manner, finding an agent, knowing what acquiring editors are looking for. Alan Rinzler, now also a freelance editor, has a long history in publishing, working with a variety of authors as an editor at Grove, Simon and Schuster, Macmillan, and Holt. He considers writers at the beginning of their careers his 'specialty and passion.' The authors Alan Rinzler has published include: Toni Morrison, Tom Robbins, Hunter S. Thompson, Shirley Maclaine, Clive Cussler, Robert Ludlum, Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol. For more information on Alan Rinzler, including his Book Deal blog, please see www.alanrinzler.com/blog.

RICK POSNER
Sunday, January 24 at 2 p.m.

Jefferson County Open School in Lakewood, Colorado, a public alternative school in which standardization rampant in schools today is replaced with a personalized, well-rounded education that nurtures enthusiasm and plants seeds of hope. Veteran teacher and former Open School principal Rick Posner tells the story of this school and its alumni in his book, Lives of Passion, School of Hope (Sentient Publications). "Lives of Passion, School of Hope is a refreshing antidote to the arid and pinched view of education and school reform suffocating and strangling any clear thinking in the public square today. In this essential and urgent book, Posner illuminates the vital work of a single school, and maps a way out of the mess we're in." - William Ayres. Many Open School alums have relocated to the Seattle area, and are expected to attend.

ELIZABETH KOSTOVA
Monday, January 25 at 7 p.m.

Whatever activity the new year has borne so far, it bursts into true bustle, hard choices, etc., this evening. At Elliott Bay, Elizabeth Kostova, who captivated readers everywhere five years ago with her compelling debut novel, The Historian, makes this welcome return with her much-anticipated second novel, The Swan Thieves (Little, Brown). Ranging over a century in time (late 19th century to late 20th) and from museums and cities in the U.S. to the Normandy coast, this new book is rich in art, ardor, and obsession. An art-loving psychiatrist takes as a patient an eminent artist who has seemingly lost himself in attacking a painting at the National Gallery of Art. " ... [an] extravagantly ] romantic novel about love, madness, and art ... [Kostova's] writing about painting is frequently stunning, both in her meticulous descriptions of the techniques of the craft and her cinematic portrayals of the paintings themselves ... fans of other novels about painters ... are sure to love this one." - Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist.

STAGES - ELLIOTT BAY DRAMA BOOK GROUP
Tuesday, January 26 at 6:30 p.m.

Elliott Bay's Drama Book Group, Stages, meets once a month to read, enjoy and discuss great plays and dramatic works, contemporary and classic, from the U.S. and around the world. We start the new year with the newest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Ruined by Lynn Nottage. A rain forest bar and brothel in the brutally war-torn Congo is the setting for Lynn Nottage's extraordinary new play. The establishment's shrewd matriarch, Mama Nadi, keeps peace between customers from both sides of the civil war, as government soldiers and rebel forces alike choose from her inventory of women, many already "ruined" by rape and torture when they were pressed into prostitution. Inspired by interviews she conducted in Africa with Congo refugees, Nottage has crafted an engrossing and uncommonly human story with humor and song served alongside its postcolonial and feminist politics in the rich theatrical tradition of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage. Please join us for a thoughful discussion on this important new play.

KEITH STERN
Tuesday, January 27 at 7 p.m.

Keith Stern's Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenders (Benbella Books) began as a self-published database on a diskette, first sold at A Different Light Bookstore in West Hollywood in 1993. Then it had a life on the internet. Now at over 900 entries, Queers in History is also a comprehensive, fascinating, and thoroughly enjoyable book. Join Keith Stern for this Pioneer Square talk—a neighborhood that once was home to many of the bars, clubs, and bathhouses of Seattle's gay community. "Keith Stern is a rare historian who reports his findings with wit and passion, and he can be trusted. But if one or two of the names entered in his engaging list are doubtful about their inclusion, perhaps they won't on reflection, object much to being between the sheets with Michelangelo and Armistead Maupin—what could be cozier?" - Sir Ian McKellen.

Blue Begonia Press presents BILL RANSOM, DAN PETERS, BARRY GRIMES & JIM BODEEN
Wednesday, January 27 at 7 p.m.
      POETRY

Tonight is a group reading by a triplet of fine Northwest poets, all based in the state, and each with one or more books published by Yakima's wonderful Blue Begonia Press. Bill Ransom is a former firefighter, a co-founder of Copper Canyon Press (way back), and currently academic dean of curriculum at The Evergreen State College. His stories have been chosen for the PEN/NEA Syndicated Fiction Project. He reads this evening from his recent poetry collection, The Woman and the War Baby. "The gift of a voice cuts across the dumb silence in the face of oblivion. In a 'fruit so juicy, so sweet,' we taste not only the sudden joy in being left alive alongside imminent death, but also forgiveness, apology, the inclusion of us all." - Michael Daley. Selah native Dan Peters, a poet who teaches poetry at Yakima Valley Community College, reads from his third Blue Begonia poetry collection, Down the Road the Children Go. "In reading this generous and graceful book, I am reminded of a line from Gerald Manley Hopkins: 'There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.' It is dearest freshness that one encounters over and again deep down in Dan Peters' poems." - Joseph Stroud. Last, and certainly not least, the one who makes this all happen, Blue Begonia publisher and poet Jim Bodeen, whose books include Impulse to Love. Please note: Barry Grimes who was scheduled to appear as part of this group reading has cancelled.

JENNIE SHORTRIDGE
Thursday, January 28 at 7 p.m.

Seattle writer Jennie Shortridge, part of a veritable boom of fiction by local authors that saw books released in 2009, makes this welcome return visit with her newest, When She Flew (NAL/Penguin). "... A taut, beautifully rendered novel about an injured war veteran, his bright young daughter, and a street-smart police officer who has lost almost more than she can bear. When their lives become entangled, what results has all the urgency of a thriller and offers a moving exploration of parental love and the lengths to which one person will go to take care of another." - Marisa de los Santos. "Jennie Shortridge has done it again. Her novels are delightful and compelling stories of real-world characters in mildly dysfunctional lives struggling for wisdom." -Selden Edwards.

MIKE O'CONNOR
Friday, January 29 at 7 p.m.

Noted Northwest poet, writer, editor/publisher (Empty Bowl Press), and translator of Chinese literature, Mike O'Connor has been winning praise and recognition for his wonderful book of autobiographical stories, Unnecessary Talking: The Montesano Stories (Pleasure Boat Studio). "With its winding episodic structure, intrinsic good heartedness, and flawless storytelling, Unnecessary Talking feels like childhood—cocooned by family but plumbed with vast and thrilling occasions for interesting trouble. Mike O'Connor's tales and tall tales read like a travelogue from a distant land, a place anyone who has had a youthful adventure will recognize and celebrate—and long to visit again." - Adrienne Harun.

JACOB NEEDLEMAN
Saturday, January 30 at 2 p.m.

San Francisco-based religious studies scholar and philosopher Jacob Needleman makes this welcome Elliott Bay return, sharing his insights with truth-seekers from all walks of life, insights from many religious texts, and stories from his own spiritual quest, as he takes on the question posed by his newest book's title, What is God? (Tarcher). Here he builds the case for a new way of understanding the 'higher power.' Jacob Needleman's books include Lost Christianity and Why Can't We Be Good. "As usual, Jacob Needleman gets to the heart of the matter with eloquence and efficiency. Perhaps it would be better to say the dark heart of the matter, for we find ourselves beset with trials and tribulations of our own shameful making. How to get out? Here is the road map—with a beautiful speck of life at the end of a very difficult path." - Ken Burns.

JOHN BOWE
Saturday, January 30 at 7 p.m.
--LATE BREAKING ADDITION!--

Special, late addition to January. What is love? How is romantic love sparked, pursued, won and lost? John Bowe and a group of collaborators traveled the U.S. conducting interviews with these questions in mind, and together have produced Us: Americans Talk About Love (Faber and Faber). The author of previous books—Gig and Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the Global Economy—John Bowe served as editor for this project. "This gaggle of voices from all walks of life will have you giggling, crying and muttering to yourself in alarmingly rapid succession ... A central truth soon emerges from this tapestry of human desire: like the eternal city of Rome, the ruins of ancient, formative love often stand in plain sight alongside the most recent annexes of our emotional landscape." - Elle. John Bowe is a recipient of the J. Anthony Lukas Award. Also expected to be on hand to tonight is Diana Briggs, one of several project collaborators.

Conversations with PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET presents The Sleeping Beauty
Sunday, January 31 at 2 p.m.

Presented by PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET. PNB's popular, free discussion series continues this afternoon as PNB Education programs manager Doug Fullington and guests, principal dancers Carla Körbes and Mara Vinson dicuss PNB's forthcoming production of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty. PNB's staging features choreography by Ronald Hynd, and is based on Marius Petipa's original direction. For more about Pacific Northwest Ballet, its season and/or this program, please see www.pnb.org, or call (206) 441-2440.

ALSO TO NOTE:

• Seattle Arts & Lectures. In addition to the special evening with PATTI SMITH noted here for January 25, SAL is also busy this month with JANE & MICHAEL STERN featured in the Literary Lecture Series on January 12, followed by KIM ADDONIZIO and GARY LILLEY reading in the Poetry Series on January 21. Both evenings commence at 7:30 p.m. and are at Benaroya Hall. Word is also out on a January 11 "Community Dinner" at the Palace Ballroom with the Sterns, and on SAL's Annual "Words Matter" Benefit Dinner on March 24, featuring TIMOTHY EGAN. Please see www.lectures.org or call (206) 621-2230 for tickets/information.
• Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas. Jan. 18 is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day all over the US. The CD Forum participates in the Center House festivities at 3 p.m. that day with a Revolutionary Forum ... It's also time to start marking the calendar: April 10 is the annual (now annually sold out) Food as Art gala. See www.cdforum.org for information/details.
• Town Hall, Talk of the Town. Our friends at Town Hall Seattle maintain a very active presentation schedule—a good number of which include us. See www.townhallseattle.org for their detailed calendar. Friday evening March 5 is their annual "Talk of the Town" benefit evening, for which guests attend dinner and conversation in various splendid homes. See that same website for information on this.
• Night School at Hotel Sorrento. While on the subject of eating and conversing, the Sorrento's Night School "Midnight Symposium" in January features ATUL GAWANDE (see above, Jan. 10 at Town Hall) for an evening of dinner and conversation on Monday, January 11 at the Sorrento. See www.hotelsorrento.com for more information, www.brownpapertickets.com for tickets.
• Richard Hugo House. Always many offerings in the way of workshops, classes and presentations going on here. Among those on tap in January: Castalia group reading, Jan. 5; "Large, Hairy, and Literate" reading, Jan. 14; Red Sky Poetry Theater Reunion with JT STEWART and DEBORAH WOODARD featured, Jan. 25; "Cheap Beer & Prose" reading, Jan. 28. For more information, please see www.hugohouse.org.
• Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Asian Art Museum. Besides exhibiting art, SAM and SAAM play host to numerous programs of talking and reading, from art lectures to poetry. Of special note at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, starting Jan. 30, will be a new, four-part Saturday University lecture series presented by the Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas, this time a four-part series on "Health, Sex, and Women's Rights in Contemporary Asia." Please see www.seattleartmuseum.org for information/registration.

• University Bookstore at 110 ... and counting. Last but not least, a raising of the glass and words of acknowledgment and congratulation to our friends and colleagues at the University Bookstore. On January 10 at their main store (4326 University Way NE), they celebrate their 110th (!) anniversary of existence. They have some fun—and a delightful celebratory publication—planned that day (www.ubookstore.com). See them, cheer them. May we all look, and be doing so well at 110.

THE SHOOTS OF FEBRUARY

The Shoots of February. Yes, signs of growth, of spring to come. And new books, part of it. Among those due through are: JOSH SUNDQUIST, Feb. 1 at Seattle Public Central Library; MARY JO BANG, Feb. 2; BRENDA PETERSON, Feb. 4; W.S. MERWIN & Friends, Feb. 4 at Town Hall Seattle, AMALIO MADUENO & PAUL NELSON, Feb. 5; JAMES B. SWAN, Feb. 6; NIKHIL PAL SINGH and JACK O'DELL, Feb. 6 at the Northwest African American Museum; MICHELINE AHARONIAN MARCOM, Feb. 6; MARIA FINN, Feb. 11; KEVIN SAMPSELL, Feb. 12; GREG NOKES, Feb. 13; ED SKOOG, Feb. 13; JOEL KOTKIN, Feb. 16 at Town Hall Seattle; THOMAS MULLEN, Feb. 17 at 12 noon; JEDEDIAH BERRY, Feb. 17; HEIDI DURROW, Feb. 18; LORRAINE McCONOUGHY, Feb. 18 at Horizon House; KAYRNA McGLYNN & BRENDAN SHIMODA, Feb. 19; DEBORAH BLUM, Feb. 22; RACHEL KRAMER, Feb. 23; JIM WALLIS, Feb. 23; PETER HESSLER, Feb. 24; SHARI STORM & KAREN BURNS, Feb. 25; "Aspects of the Opera," Feb. 25; GINA OCHSNER, Feb. 27; AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITERS ALLIANCE group reading, Feb. 27. All of the above are subject to change, and others will be added, as well. Please check back on our website at the end of January and/or see our February newsletter for more current and detailed information forthcoming. Thanks.

BEFORE SAYING ANY OF THE GREAT WORDS, also Antes de decir cualquiera de las grandes palabras, is both a sequence and the title of Mexican poet DAVID HUERTA's Copper Canyon Press collection (see January 13).