Gregory Maguire, Concordian and author of “ Wicked,” kicks off the event on Thursday at 7 p.m. 13, and running through the end of the month. The Concord Festival of Authors celebrates its 30th anniversary this year with nearly 40 events to choose from opening this Thursday, Oct. “Cool night waits in the plush seat of the car with the motor running in the rain until finally it is steakhouse weather, and there are unreflective settings.” These pieces open us in their grinning openness, in moments of vulnerability - “I am sorry/ for feigning/ personhood/ so many times/ before I was one” - and warm candor - “I don’t mind if people talk about actual / because life is earthy.”
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His claims and observations make you know the things you didn’t know you knew: “Things you do with rocks can be more/ comforting than things done with mud.” His latest collection, “ True Figures” (MadHat), gathers poems and prose poems of the last nearly 25 years, and taken as a whole, the book has a nighttime feel, intimate, alert, awake to “eerie remnants” and the Morse code of “men, women, women, men, women,/ women, men, men, men, women, women.” The work gives a conspiratorial sense, that we’re in on the secret, in on the laugh, in on the weirdo mysteries of being alive. There’s a peculiar matter-of-factness about the poems of Somerville-based poet David Blair, who teaches at the University of New Hampshire. She is elevator music.” Sawers’s prose is lyrical and rhythmic, and simultaneously carries a timeless, otherworldly tone and is landed in the now. “She slips into a sealskin/donkeyskin/goatskin and is a girl no longer. There is magic here, a rich sensuality - “With hands and lips she mapped each graduation, each publication, each love letter, each reunion with a friend, each infatuation, each perfectly executed batch of scones” - and, as Sawers puts it “universal human failings.” In various forms - lists, directions, confessions, real estate propaganda - they make new myths, ones that carry questions of history and identity, of the inside-outside divide, what we absorb: the stories, the violence, the cruelty, the different kinds of love. Sawers’s short tales are beguiling, electric, personal, universal.
There are whispers of the stories from the Western European tradition: “Hansel and Gretel,” “Rapunzel,” “Rumpelstiltskin,” as well as reimaginings of tales from Thailand (Sawers’s mother is from Thailand their father is a white American). In their debut book, “ The Anchored World,” out this month from the local Rose Metal Press, Jasmine Sawers has made a collection of new-old fairy tales. They hit the deep places and they stay there, for their simplicity, their morality, their bewitching figures, their enchanting situations, but especially for their darkness and their brutality. Jasmine Sawers retells and remakes fairy tales in their debut.įairy tales stir something in the blood.
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