Sep
30
8:00 PM20:00

LAUNCH OF DAVID RATTRAY'S HOW I BECAME INVISIBLE

Since its first publication in 1992, David Rattray’s How I Became One of the Invisible has functioned as a kind of secret history and guidebook to a poetic and mystical tradition running through Western civilization from Pythagoras to In Nomine music to Hölderlin and Antonin Artaud. Rattray not only excavated this tradition, he embodied and lived it. He studied at Harvard and the Sorbonne but remained a poet, outside the academy. His stories “Van” and “The Angel” chronicle his travels in southern Mexico with his friend, the poet Alden Van Buskirk, and his adventures after graduating from Dartmouth in the mid-1950s. Eclipsed by the more mediagenic Beat writers during his lifetime, Rattray has become a powerful influence on contemporary artists and writers.

Hosted by Chris Kraus and Robert Dewhurst, join us for the launch of the book’s republication with readings from Fiona Duncan, Ken Jordan, Basil King, Martha King, Eileen Myles, Ariana Reines, George Quasha, and others TBA.

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Sep
11
8:00 PM20:00

READING / BOOK SIGNING WITH ALI LIEBIGOTT

About this Event

Ariana Reines is the author of four poetry collections and the Obie-winning play "Telephone." She has created performances and art projects for the Whitney Museum, Works+Process at the Guggenheim, Stuart Shave / Modern Art, and more, and has taught poetry at many institutions, including Columbia, Yale, NYU, and UC Berkeley, where she was the Holloway poet. Recently a Macdowell Fellow, a Dora Maar Fellow, and a poet in residence at the T.S. Eliot House, she performs frequently around the world. Her newest collection, A Sand Book, is now available from Tin House Books.

Ali Liebegott is a writer and painter. She has published four books: The Beautifully Worthless, The IHOP Papers, Cha-Ching!, and The Summer of Dead Birds. She is the recipient of a Peabody Award, two Lambda Literary Awards and a Ferro-Grumley Award. She has read and performed her work throughout the United States and Canada with the legendary queer literary tour Sister Spit. In collaboration with Michelle Tea and Elizabeth Pickens she created The RADAR LAB, a free queer writer's retreat from 2009-2013. in 2010 she took a train trip across America to interview poets for a project called The Heart has many Doors--. She currently lives in Los Angeles.

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