Gibson Reads from New Book, Mystic

Event:

Date:

November 22nd, 2024.

Time:

6:30 PM

Location:

La Grua Center, 32 Water St. Stonington

Contact:

Margaret Gibson, brokencupgibson@gmail.com

Website:

https://lagruacenter.org/

Sponsored by ARTS CAFÉ, MYSTIC, this event features a dramatic reading of CT State Poet Laureate Emerita Margaret Gibson's new book, Draw Me Without Boundaries. Gibson reads the part of Lena, and Tori Richnavsky reading Zoe.

“Draw me without boundaries,” Lena says to her granddaughter Zoe, an artist. This book, a suspenseful read and a fluid meditation, is their love story, told in their voices: inner monologues whose prose and poetry are set against the shifting background of global climate crisis and the COVID pandemic. DRAW ME WITHOUT BOUNDARIES is a compelling investigation of the deep connections possible between people despite their physical isolation. Zoe has left New York City to paint in solitude at her grandmother’s abandoned house in the woods near the seacoast of Connecticut. Having fled her failed marriage, unexpectedly pregnant, she faces the choice to continue or end her pregnancy, seeking clarity by walking the labyrinth of the woods. Lena, once a poet and a keeper of journals, has been moved to a memory care facility where she faces choiceless isolation, continuing memory loss, and death, living only for her granddaughter’s visits and the vivid, if occasional, revelations of her fractured memories. Margaret Gibson, long respected for her skillful poetry and for a depth of attention that is both fearless and tender, has given us a brilliant book that reflects back to us the profound issues of our time. (description provided by LSU Press.)

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