Elliott Bay Gift Certificates
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The perfect gift—in any amount—with that personal touch of classic old world charm.
Poet and teacher Ava Leavell Haymon divides her time between teaching poetry writing in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and directing a writers' retreat in New Mexico. Besides being up this way to escape southern heat and (most likely) sun, she visits tonight to read from her newest collection of poems, Why the House is Made of Gingerbread (Louisiana State University Press). "In Why the House is Made of Gingerbread, Ava Leavell Haymon turns inside out the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel. Finding the 'walls of gingerbread ... not on plumb,' she begins 'before the story began' to re-imagine and re-contextualize the narrative elements of voice, place, conflict, and resolve. With formal care and invention, Haymon has crafted in this poetic sequence a suspenseful 'insistent new version' of magical intensity and power." – Claudia Emerson.
