November 2020 Redwood Writers Featured Presenter
Forrest Gander
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet, Novelist, Essayist & Translator
When
NEW DAY Sunday, November 8, 2020 from 1:00 PM to 2:30 pm Pacific Time (US and Canada)
This meeting will be held via Zoom.
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Contact
Judy M. Baker, Vice President
Redwood Branch of the
California Writers Club
707-210-6696
speakers@redwoodwriters.org
Forrest Gander
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet, Novelist, Essayist & Translator
About Our Presenter
Pulitzer Prize-winning Forrest Gander is a poet, writer, translator, and editor of several anthologies of writing from Spain and Mexico. He is celebrated for the richness of his language and his undaunted lyric passion. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including collaborations with notable artists and photographers.
Gander’s collection Be With won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award. The Pulitzer Prize Judges citation calls it, “A collection of elegies that grapple with sudden loss, and the difficulties of expressing grief and yearning for the departed.”
Gander’s essays have appeared in The Nation, The Boston Review, and the New York Times Book Review. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim, Howard, United States Artists, and Whiting Foundations.
Reviews (from the Blue Flower Arts website cited below)
“The quiet complexity of his syntax can build striking abstract landscapes in which the material and spiritual worlds seem equally intelligent.” –Tony Hoagland
“Gander’s [poems] plunge and swoop up and down the whole scale of earthy, earthly, cerebral, and celestial experience. The ride is for the most part thrilling.” —The Boston Book Review
“In the same way that the vocabulary of faith might aid a religious poet in a time of crisis, Gander’s deep affinity for the natural world provides a kind of solace.” —The New Yorker
Website: https://blueflowerarts.com/artist/forrest-gander/
For a list of other titles by Forrrest Gander please visit: https://blueflowerarts.com/artist/forrest-gander/forrest-gander-books/
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