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Thursday, October 6, 2016 Poetics Plus: Brian Teare Timelines: 1b: Past Events (Unseen Archive), 2: Poetics Plus

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Brian Teare
Where:
Just Buffalo Writing Center
468 Washington St., 2nd Floor
Buffalo, NY 14213
Date: November 18, 2016
Time: 8:00 p.m.

Currently a Pew Fellow in the Arts, Brian Teare is the author of The Room Where I Was Born, Sight Map, the Lambda-Award-winning Pleasure, Kingsley Tufts finalist Companion Grasses, and The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven.

Praise for The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven: As Lambda Award–winning and Kingsley Tufts finalist Teare explains in his preface, at the onset of a chronic illness he discovered the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, and the austere beauty of her grid-guided art is reflected in the construction of these poems. The various spacings are elegantly balanced, with the columns of the many split-structured poems in dialog; bursts of language let us intuit rather than see his pain. Teare opens by citing “a form/ narrowed down to its final iteration,” then explains, “I am speaking/ of illness and the critical situation it reveals,” and we finally get it: art brings not relief but understanding. –Library Journal

Co-sponsors for this event include the Graduate Poetics Group, the Center for Disability Studies, the English Department, and the Comparative Literature Department.