Launch Party for Ernest Hilbert’s Aim Your Arrows at the Sun
by Ernie on 27/10/09 at 10:07 am
Head on out to Melville House Books in DUMBO Brooklyn to hear Ernest Hilbert read at the launch party for his new chapbook, Aim Your Arrows at the Sun (LATR Editions, 2009, foreword by Adam Kirsch), which will be issued in an edition of 250 hand-sewn copies. Heather Green will read from her new book, No Omen (LATR).
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009, 7PM
Melville House Books
145 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
phone 718.722.9204
info@mhpbooks.com
Complimentary beer and wine.
Copies available at $12 for pre-order ($20 after publication) from editor Daniel Lin at daniel@loveamongtheruins.com. For more information about the press and the party, please visit latr.tumblr.com.
From Adam Kirsch’s Foreword to Aim Your Arrows at the Sun: “To be haunted, for an American poet today, is a rare and enviable condition. Not by personal demons-everyone has those, and when poets write about them they are really haunting themselves. To be genuinely haunted, as Ernest Hilbert is in these outward- and backward-looking poems, one must be conscious of the past, and of the chastening contrast between the past and the present; in other words, one must have a sense of history. When Hilbert is visited by the past, in these poems at least, it is by grand and violent phantoms: ‘I read on about the lives and deaths of kings,’ he writes in a Lowellian phrase in ‘April Arsenal.’ Like Robert Lowell, Hilbert is drawn to scenes of carnage, where the true face of humanity seems to reveal itself.”
Ms Baroque
Oct 28th, 2009
Ernie I was ALMOST interested there for a minute. Does that mean you’re NOT actually haunted by ghostly phantasms and apparitions?!
Many congratulations, and these chapbooks look gorgeous too. Wish I could come to the party, have a great time.
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