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Three terrific younger writers and poets, making a real tour of it, read here tonight. Aaron Michael Morales is the author of a powerful debut novel, set in his hometown, Drowning Tucson (Coffee House). "Morales wrestles with nothing less than the parameters of the human soul. This is subversive and sly work, as knowing in its effect as it is exciting to read. For all its thrilling nature, and for all his hard-edge style, this is a deeply moral effort." - Luis Alberto Urrea, joined in early praise by Leslie Marmon Silko and Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Most known as a poet (a collection is forthcoming from Copper Canyon), Travis Nichols is here with his first novel, Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder (Coffee House Press). "This is a beautiful crackpot's history of America. Travis Nichols takes us on a godly road trip through tobacco, love, and Boom Boom, landing us still at the world's loneliest tourist trap ... And happily Off We Go is also about a man loving women: 'A toast,' I say finally, 'to the mother's side.'" - Eileen Myles. Paul Martinez Pompa is a poet out of Chicago, and My Kill Adore Him (University of Notre Dame Press) is his first, full-length collection. "Like the poet's native Chicago, even when violent or troubling, Paul Martinez Pompa's poems risk beauty. His work possesses a fluidity that appears both effortless and well-earned. His is a Chicago Renaissance of one—Gwendolyn Brooks' Bronzeville and Carl Sandburg's 'city of big shoulders' becoming a city of 'broken lovers' and 'an entire city in your ears' in Martinez Pompa's capable hands. Playful and passionate, the poems in My Kill Adore Him mark an important debut." - Kevin Young.
