Gibson & Nordlund Read at Wordhouse, West Hartford

Event:

Date:

November 9th, 2024.

Time:

2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Location:

Noah Webster House, 227 South Main St. West Hartford

Contact:

Jim Finnegan, jforjames@aol.com

Sponsored by Wordhouse Poetry Series, 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 Heather Oakley reading Zoe.

Glastonbury Poet Laureate Victoria Nordlund, who has taught Creative Writing at Rockville HS, UCONN & Mark Twain House, will also read from her two books.

GIBSON'S NEW BOOK: “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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