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Virtual Event – Raymond Antrobus

April 5, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Magic City Books is proud to welcome poet Raymond Antrobus for a virtual author program in celebration of the American release of his award winning collection, The Perseverance.

The Perseverance is a collection of poems examining a d/Deaf experience alongside meditations on loss, grief, education, and language, both spoken and signed. It is a book about communication and connection, about cultural inheritance, about identity in a hearing world that takes everything for granted, about the dangers we may find (both individually and as a society) if we fail to understand each other.

Joining Raymond in conversation will be the poet Meg Day. This event will feature an ASL interpreter and closed captioning will be available.

This free event will be hosted on the Zoom platform and Facebook Live. To register in advance for the event on Zoom visit: https://magiccitybooks.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1LWXM1xPQauvFh5jU_2a7Q

After registering you will receive a confirmation email with details on how to join the event on Monday, April 5 at 7:00 pm CT.

The Perseverance will be published by Tin House Books on March 30. To pre-order a copy you can call Magic City Books, 918-602-4452 or shop online here: https://magiccitybooks.square.site/product/the-perseverance/467.

About The Perseverance

In the wake of his father’s death, the speaker in Raymond Antrobus’ The Perseverance travels to Barcelona. In Gaudi’s Cathedral, he meditates on the idea of silence and sound, wondering whether acoustics really can bring us closer to God. Receiving information through his hearing aid technology, he considers how deaf people are included in this idea. “Even though,” he says, “I have not heard / the golden decibel of angels, / I have been living in a noiseless / palace where the doorbell is pulsating / light and I am able to answer.”

The Perseverance is a collection of poems examining a d/Deaf experience alongside meditations on loss, grief, education, and language, both spoken and signed. It is a book about communication and connection, about cultural inheritance, about identity in a hearing world that takes everything for granted, about the dangers we may find (both individually and as a society) if we fail to understand each other.

Raymond Antrobus was born in Hackney, London to an English mother and Jamaican father. He is the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, Complete Works III, and Jerwood Compton Poetry, and one of the world’s first recipients of an MA in Spoken Word Education from Goldsmiths, University of London. Raymond is a founding member of Chill Pill and the Keats House Poets Forum. He has had multiple residencies in deaf and hearing schools around London, as well as Pupil Referral Units. In 2018 he was awarded the Geoffrey Dearmer Award by the Poetry Society, judged by Ocean Vuong. Raymond currently lives in London and spends most of his time working nationally and internationally as a freelance poet and teacher.

Deaf, genderqueer poet Meg Day is the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street, 2014), winner of the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award, and a finalist for the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and the co-editor of Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master (Pleiades, 2019). The 2015-2016 recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship and a 2013 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, Day’s work can be found in, or forthcoming from, Best American Poetry 2020The New York TimesAGNIBeloit Poetry Journal, & elsewhere. Day is Assistant Professor of English & Creative Writing at Franklin & Marshall College. www.megday.com

Details

Date:
April 5, 2021
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Venue

Magic City Books
221 E. Archer St.
Tulsa, OK 74103 United States

Organizer

Magic City Books