Clown Cantos – Is not everything an event that must be sung?
Clown Cantos – Is not everything an event that must be sung?
April 11 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
You are invited to join the inimitable Barbara Mossberg for a dramatic (and humorous) reading of the newly published Clown Cantos, Everything is Alive in its Own Way, Singing (yes, there will be cake). Mossberg’s new book is illustrated by local fine-art painter and illustrator Christine Crozier.
In this sequel to Here for the Present: A Grammar of Happiness in the Present Imperfect, Mossberg makes fanfare of worms and turkeys and the so-called departed, all of whom must be sung, in comic cantos of holy ephemera alive in their own way. With a literary improv pluck, Mossberg’s Yes upends despair: it is a feisty sit-down stand up of the spirit, epic episodes and odes of a phenomenal life.
Barbara Mossberg is a former California Laureate/PG Poet-in-Residence. Her global career spans four decades as a prize winning poet, author, and teacher, and educational ministry.
For more information, visit the library, phone (831) 648-5762 or email referencedesk@cityofpacificgrove.org.
Free.
Sponsored by Pacific Grove Public Library Friends and Foundation, the Whitney Latham-Lechich Poetry Trust and Monterey County Gives! 2024 donors.
