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Creativity Group: Poet Alan Bern

When:
Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 2:00 PM
Where:
Home of Curry and David Barber
1642 Arch Street
Berkeley, CA  
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Curry Barber
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CREATIVITY GROUP
Tues., Sept. 13, 2 pm
 
With Poet Alan Bern
 alanburn

Our East Bay Hills Creativity Group resumes  Tuesday, September 13, at 2 P.M., with poet Alan Bern reading from his books “greater distance and other poems” (2015), and “Waterwalking in Berkeley” (2007).  These are loving images, as this glimpse of his mother    
                 ….built her a deck        
                in each place they lived
                where she'd lay out 
                shirtless, sun on her back 

                finally in their last house,  
                no one lies on the  deck
                the light pours through glass doors—
                below, a lemon tree grows
                more lemons than a tree can hold

Alan will also show us some of the award-winning broadsides he and his printer colleague of forth years, Robert Woods, have made. 
 
We will meet at 1642 Arch St, between Cedar and Virginia, above Spruce. 
 
Please be sure to RSVP if you will be attending, or phone 843-9536. 
 
As usual, all village members are invited.
 
 

Alan Bern’s Newest Book of Poetry: Greater Distance: and Other Poems, Lines & Faces,

November 2015, was written by Berkeley librarian Alan Bern (who is also an ACL member). It features illustrations by Robert Woods, a printmaker from Pleasant Hill, who worked with Bern on two previous books.  “In the central section of his book, “greater distance,” which is based on the last years of his parents’ lives, poet, translator, and performer Alan Bern gives us a quiet pathway of observed moments and invites the reader to walk it with him… since we all must travel it. Also included in this volume are adaptations of two broadsides written by Bern and illustrated by his friend and collaborator, the artist and fine printer Robert Woods: under the imprint of Lines & Faces they designed and printed both original broadsides on a Vandercook proving machine, “Dialogue” and “From Futility.” In “Dialogue,” San Francesco d’Assisi and Hildegard von Bingen meet as breezes to speak about their lives and views. Reminiscent of Dante, this poem is translated into Italian by poet and Neapolitan educational theorist and activist, Marco Rossi-Doria. Lines & Faces is a printing and publishing company specializing in the relationships between words and images. In their illustrated broadsides, prints, and books they explore these rich relationships and produce both letterpress and digitally printed materials. Artist Robert Woods and poet Alan Bern present their own original work and the work of other writers as well: both are fine printers who grew up together in Berkeley in the 1960s.” For more on Alan’s new book, see: https://books.google.com/books/about/Greater_Distance.html?id=OVP1sgEACAAJ

 

All are welcome!
Please RSVP to this e-mail address if you are coming:
barberdc@lmi.net
 


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