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Hail and Farewell: Tacoma Launch
October 11 at 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
King's Books (maphttps://www.google.com/maps/place/218+St+Helens+Ave,+Tacoma,+WA+98402/@47.2616438,-122.4479238,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x549055a8877d1da1:0x5df1d87401c134e7!8m2!3d47.2616438!4d-122.4457351)
218 St. Helens Ave, Tacoma, WA 98402
You are invited to join Abby E. Murray, City of Tacoma Poet Laureate 2019-2021https://www.cityoftacoma.org/cms/one.aspx?pageId=2129 and editor in chief of Collateral, for a short reading from her first full-length collection of poems, Hail and Farewell, winner of the 2019 Perugia Press Poetry Prize. Come listen to poems that explore pacifism through a military lens and marriage through one of individual identity. There will be time for Q&A with Abby as well as signed books available.
Visit abbyemurray.com/eventshttps://www.abbyemurray.com/events or the view the Hail and Farewell: Tacoma Launch event on Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/events/530781064393712/ for more info.
Of the book, Ellen Bass writes: "'... only girls / had the grit to transform themselves,' Abby E. Murray writes in Hail and Farewell, her fine first collection of poems. Murray has grit to spare, examining in intimate, often devastating detail what it means to be a pacifist married to a soldier. Both insider and outsider, the speaker in these poems interrogates military culture, war, and violence with insight and compassion. "Bones," written at the bedside of a wounded soldier, describes 'shrapnel / spiraling up the leg...like / morning glories curling round a fencepost.' Murray deftly weaves the personal and the political, as in "How Can I Tell You This?": 'Mornings come with news: / red flowers have opened / beneath a man's white t-shirt / and I want to tell my daughter / the burning petals aren't hers or mine, / but how can I?' For those of us who have the luxury of not thinking about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hail and Farewell is necessary reading, reminding us what sacrifice looks like."
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Hail and Farewell: Tacoma Launch
October 11 at 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
King's Books (map<https://www.google.com/maps/place/218+St+Helens+Ave,+Tacoma,+WA+98402/@47.2616438,-122.4479238,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x549055a8877d1da1:0x5df1d87401c134e7!8m2!3d47.2616438!4d-122.4457351>)
218 St. Helens Ave, Tacoma, WA 98402
You are invited to join Abby E. Murray, City of Tacoma Poet Laureate 2019-2021<https://www.cityoftacoma.org/cms/one.aspx?pageId=2129> and editor in chief of Collateral, for a short reading from her first full-length collection of poems, Hail and Farewell, winner of the 2019 Perugia Press Poetry Prize. Come listen to poems that explore pacifism through a military lens and marriage through one of individual identity. There will be time for Q&A with Abby as well as signed books available.
Visit abbyemurray.com/events<https://www.abbyemurray.com/events> or the view the Hail and Farewell: Tacoma Launch event on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/events/530781064393712/> for more info.
Of the book, Ellen Bass writes: "'... only girls / had the grit to transform themselves,' Abby E. Murray writes in Hail and Farewell, her fine first collection of poems. Murray has grit to spare, examining in intimate, often devastating detail what it means to be a pacifist married to a soldier. Both insider and outsider, the speaker in these poems interrogates military culture, war, and violence with insight and compassion. "Bones," written at the bedside of a wounded soldier, describes 'shrapnel / spiraling up the leg...like / morning glories curling round a fencepost.' Murray deftly weaves the personal and the political, as in "How Can I Tell You This?": 'Mornings come with news: / red flowers have opened / beneath a man's white t-shirt / and I want to tell my daughter / the burning petals aren't hers or mine, / but how can I?' For those of us who have the luxury of not thinking about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hail and Farewell is necessary reading, reminding us what sacrifice looks like."
