[I’ve got some
very talented friends and colleagues. So for this
year’s annual Beach Reads series, I wanted to highlight works by friends
old and new and colleagues at FSU (I’m a poet and I don’t know it!). Leading up
to one of my favorite crowd-sourced posts of the year, so make sure to share
your Beach Read nominations, please!]
If you think I’ve
known yesterday’s subject Ian Williams for a good while (and I have—we met at
FSU’s new faculty orientation in September 2005), well how about this: I’ve
known Emily Page since at least 7th grade, when we shared a homeroom
in Charlottesville’s Buford Middle School. Which is why it was extra special to
see Emily (who works as an
artist and tattoo artist in North Carolina) complete and publish her first
book, Fractured Memories. Combining
her artistic talents and works with her experiences as the daughter of a father
with dementia, Fractured Memories is
at one and the same time raw, moving, and personal and abstract, experimental,
and evocative. It’s a pretty big book (coffee table book size, really), so you’ll
need a big bag to bring it to the beach with you—but who doesn’t already bring
a big bag to the beach?? And whether you’re interested in the visual arts or
memoirs, in avant garde imagery or explorations of aging and family, you’ll
find something to keep your Beach Reading attention fully held in Emily Page’s Fractured Memories.
Next Beach Read
tomorrow,
Ben
PS. What are you
bringing to the beach this year or would you recommend we bring?
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