Today! Jane Huffman at Green College, UBC
Today! Jane Huffman at Green College, UBC
5 pm in person and via Livestream
Dear Friends,
Join us this evening to hear
read Public Abstract.TODAY, October 30th, 2024
5 - 6:30/7 pm
Coach House, Green College, University of British Columbia
There will be poems, there will be free books. All are welcome. Please note that we are requesting masks for this event and will have them available at the door.
Can’t make it in person this evening? Join via Livestream from anywhere!
Huffman’s machines are obsessional, so metrically and sonically driven that they threaten to jump the track. — Diane Seuss
What Do Writers Have to Say about Jane Huffman and Public Abstract?
If a poem is a machine made of words, as William Carlos Williams asserts, then Huffman’s machines are obsessional, so metrically and sonically driven that they threaten to jump the track. Her forms are the forms of late-stage capitalism—tumbling or threatening to tumble, adulterated by misuse and time, a colonnade of seamlessly designed columns pulling apart at the seams. Public Abstract cannot be reduced to a series of issues or subjects. Instead, these poems are formal archetypes of foundational motifs. Embodiment. Power and powerlessness. The vulnerable soul at odds with brutal circumstance.
—Diane Seuss, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Modern Poetry and Frank: Sonnets
Jane Huffman is, for me anyway, a wonderful discovery. Sometimes, in lines like “I scratch/The itch of certainty,” she seems to be channeling Dickinson. She thinks big in small spaces, which requires precision. With a light touch, she takes things apart and reassembles them differently again and again. In a time when a lot of poetry looks the same, her work is dazzlingly unique.
—Rae Armantrout, author of Finalists
We can’t wait!
All the best from your hosts,
Bronwen and Elee
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