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SUMMARY:Jane Hirshfield - The Asking: New & Selected Poems
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed poet Jane Hirshfield for a reading and signing of her collection\, The Asking: New & Selected Poems. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Asking is the long-awaited new and selected collection by the author of “some of the most important poetry in the world today” (The New York Times Magazine)\, assaying the ranges of our shared and borrowed lives: our bonds of eros and responsibilities to the planet; the singing dictions and searchlight dimensions of perception; the willing plunge into an existence both perishing and beloved\, dazzling “even now\, even here.” \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes.\nThank you for registering! \nIn an era of algorithm\, assertion\, silo\, and induced distraction\, Jane Hirshfield’s poems bring a much-needed awakening response\, actively countering narrowness. The Asking takes its title from the close of one of its thirty-one new poems: “don’t despair of this falling world\, not yet / didn’t it give you the asking.” Interrogating language and life\, pondering beauty amid bewilderment and transcendence amid transience\, Hirshfield offers a signature investigation of the conditions\, contradictions\, uncertainties\, and astonishments that shape our existence. A leading advocate for the biosphere and the alliance of science and imagination\, she brings to both inner and outer quandaries an abiding compass: the choice to embrace what is\, to face with courage\, curiosity\, and a sense of kinship whatever comes. \nIn poems that consider the smallest ant and the vastness of time\, hunger and bounty\, physics\, war\, and love in myriad forms\, this collection–drawing from nine previous books and five decades of writing–brings the insights and slant-lights that come to us only through poetry’s arc\, delve\, and tact; through a vision both close and sweeping; through music-inflected thought and recombinant leap. \nWith its quietly magnifying brushwork and numinous clarities\, The Asking expands our awareness of both breakage’s grief and the possibility for repair. \nJane Hirshfield is the author of ten collections of poetry and two now-classic collections of essays on poetry’s deep workings\, and the editor of four co-translated books presenting world poets from the deep past. Hirshfield is one of American poetry’s central spokespersons for concerns about the biosphere and interconnection. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations and from the Academy of American Poets; the Poetry Center Book Award and the California Book Award; her books have been long- and finalist-listed for the National Book Award\, National Book Critics Circle Award\, and England’s T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Her work\, translated into seventeen languages\, appears in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The New York Review of Books\, The Times Literary Supplement\, and ten editions of The Best American Poetry. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2019.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jane-hirshfield-the-asking-new-selected-poems/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:James Ellroy - The Enchanters
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author James Ellroy (American Tabloid\, LA Confidential\, My Dark Places) for a reading and signing of his new book The Enchanters\, “A descent into the conspiracy hellhole of Hollywood in the early 1960s.” —Kirkus Reviews. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“Ellroy masterfully orchestrates his vast array of subplots to create a tour de force of vibe and atmosphere. That ambience\, plus his signature jazzy turns of phrase\, will thrill longtime fans. . . . Fascinating … a hell of a ride.” —Publishers Weekly \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes.\nThank you for registering! \nJames Ellroy—Demon Dog of American Letters—goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with a wild riff on the Marilyn Monroe death myth in an astonishing\, behind-the-headlines crime epic. \nLos Angeles\, August 4\, 1962. The city broils through a midsummer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker’s looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. \nThe freewheeling Freddy O: tainted ex-cop\, defrocked private eye\, dope fiend\, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim “Opportunity is love.” Freddy gets to work. He dimly perceives Marilyn Monroe’s death and the kidnapped starlet to be a poisonous riddle that only he has the guts and the brains to untangle. We are with him as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth. We are with him as he penetrates the faux-sunshine of Jack and Bobby Kennedy and the shuck of Camelot. We are with him as he falters\, and grasps for love beyond opportunity. We are with him as he tracks Marilyn Monroe’s horrific last charade through a nightmare L.A. that he served to create — and as he confronts his complicity and his own raging madness. \nIt’s the Summer of ’62\, baby. Freddy O’s got a hot date with history. The savage Sixties are ready to pop. It’s just a shot away. \nThe Enchanters is a transcendent work of American popular fiction. It is James Ellroy at his most crazed\, brilliant\, provocative\, profanely hilarious\, and stop-your-heart tender. It is a luminous psychological drama and an unparalleled thrill ride. It is\, resoundingly\, the great American crime novel. \nJames Ellroy was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid\, The Cold Six Thousand\, and Blood’s a Rover\, and the L.A. Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia\, The Big Nowhere\, L.A. Confidential\, and White Jazz. He lives in Colorado.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/james-ellroy-the-enchanters/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Frequency: A Festival of Light\, Sound\, & Digital Culture
DESCRIPTION:Frequency is a biennial festival of light\, sound\, and digital culture hosted in and around the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). The 4-night event showcases local and global artists and integrates a variety of media-based art into the downtown landscape through illuminated artworks\, interactive technologies\, and immersive experiences. \nFrom kinetic sculptures and VR screenings to projection mapping and audiovisual performances\, Frequency supports the museum’s commitment to producing programs that extend beyond its walls and enhance the cultural vibrancy of Santa Cruz County. Many of the works are participatory or serve as natural draws to public spaces\, sparking interpersonal connection through community storytelling and history-sharing. \nFor the full schedule of events and to purchase tickets\, please visit: https://www.santacruzmah.org/frequency \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/frequency-a-festival-of-light-sound-digital-culture-2/
LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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