A Celebration of the Life and Work of Jeffrey Knapp with readings by Michael Hettich, Adrian Castro, Geoffrey Philp and John Dufresne
Saturday, Nov. 19, 2:00 p.m., Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Michael Hettich
In his poetry collection, The Animals Beyond Us ($13.95), Michael Hettich, using natural imagery and the disjunctive ease of jazz, imagines a way through isolation, longing, and the haunting unexplained loss of his father. Hettich is the author of 13 previous books and chapbooks of poetry. He also contributed the foreword to I'm the One With the Blue Cap On (Rock Press, $15.00), a posthumous collection of Jeffrey Knapp's poems, edited by John Dufresne.
Adrian Castro
Blue Christmas; Holiday Stories for the Rest of Us (B&B Press, $17.00) is the antidote to the forced frivolity, gratuitous gluttony, and crass commercialism of the holiday season. Edited by John Dufresne, this collection of short stories by 17 authors, including Preston Allen, Steve Almond, Lynne Barrett, Adrian Castro, Colin Channer, Ann Hood, James W. Hall, and Les Standiford, offer up the gift of candor, suspense, and substance--showing that Christmas can be both the best of times and the worst of times.
Geoffrey Philp
Geoffrey Philp's new children’s book, Marcus and the Amazons: A Story of Resistance (Mabrack Press), combines the values of Marcus Garvey and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. into the story of a courageous ant who saves his colony from an evil tyrant. Philp also contributed an afterword to I'm the One With the Blue Cap On (Rock Press, $15.00) a posthumous collection of Jeffrey Knapp's poems, edited by John Dufresne, with a Forward by Michael Hettich. Culled from typed manuscript pages going back to the sixties, the poems span the length of his career, showing the early influence of the Beats and his fondness for the visual arts and pop culture. Throughout the range of his poems, Knapps's voice reveals itself as consistently strong, energetic and uniquely his own. Philp is an award winning Jamaican poet and fiction writer.
John Dufresne
I'm the One With the Blue Cap On (Rock Press, $15.00), is a posthumous collection of Jeffrey Knapp's poems, edited by John Dufresne. Culled from typed manuscript pages going back to the sixties, the poems span the length of his career, showing the early influence of the Beats and his fondness for the visual arts and pop culture. Throughout the range of his poems, Knapps's voice reveals itself as consistently strong, energetic and uniquely his own. Dufresne is the author of 4 novels, including Louisiana Power & Light and Requiem, Mass.; and two books on the craft of writing. He is also the editor of Blue Christmas; Holiday Stories for the Rest of Us (B&B Press, $17.00), the antidote to the forced frivolity, gratuitous gluttony, and crass commercialism of the holiday season. This collection of short stories by 17 authors, including Preston Allen, Steve Almond, Lynne Barrett, Colin Channer, Ann Hood, James W. Hall, and Les Standiford, offer up the gift of candor, suspense and substance--showing that Christmas can be both the best of times and the worst of times.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
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