This Saturday, June 3, I will be reading with several other poets at a bookstore I love to frequent in part because I so often walk past it as I am doing other day-to-day things. And, frequently, it is the case that the right book is waiting for me there. For instance, I mentioned to Chris just yesterday that I was working on a paper for the PAMLA conference, in Portland five months from now, about William Faulkner’s complicity with the revisionist account of the Civil War that goes under the rubric of “The Lost Cause.” Chris walked over to a shelf and pulled out a paperback that was spot-on relevant: “Confederates in the Attic.” I opened it up at random, and at the top of page 291 found a paragraph that I could easily imagine quoting in my paper. And there are still over 400 other pages to read. Just as Papa Bach Bookstore and Chatterton’s Book Shop were in synchronicity with my youth as a poet, PAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE is aligned with me as an aging scholar.
However, this Saturday evening will be about my poems, as well as those of several other poets, including the publisher of BEAT, NOT BEAT, Eric Morago. I hope to see you there.
PATM
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Long Beach, CA 90814
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