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Seattle poet Kary Wayson is joined by other Seattle poets Kevin Craft, Rebecca Hoogs, Erin Malone, and Ed Skoogs, for what should be a lively, spirited Saturday evening. A particular highlight is the recent publication of Kary Wayson's first, full-length collection, American Husband (Ohio State University Press), recipient of OSU Press' The Journal Award. "Readers of American Husband may occasionally be reminded of Plath and Berryman, Roethke, Sexson and Lowell: poets that changed the ways in which we understood the private self in America to be a series of identities forged through a rejection of publicly constructed masks. But though American Husband taps into some of these poets' most potent confessions and anxieties ... the sound and stance of these poems is entirely Wayson's. American Husband is rife with jazz riffs, dazzling with verbal play, awash with wit and sonic intelligence. It's a book that samples its literary forbears without fear or fealty and, in the end, reinvents the love lyric into something utterly strange, and weirdly true." - Paisley Rekdal.
