Poetry
Reading - Sky Room Cafe
FASSBINDER:
HIS MOVIES, MY POEMS by Drew Pisarra
Monday, June
3 at 7pm
Admission is
Free
Join us prior
to CAC’s screening of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Merchant of
Four Seasons for a poetry reading by Drew Pisarra from his
adventurous new collection of poems inspired by the work of the legendary
German filmmaker. Published by Anxiety Press.
"This
book is a party in poetry, a wry, sly burst of beauty, attitude and art.
Pisarra crosses from introspection to extroversion, always gazing through the
lens of creative license, insight, wit and love." – Monica Drake, The Folly of Loving
Life
"This collection
is a tour-de-force as the poetry flows with theatrical bravura and the
narratives explode with erotic obsession (and poignancy). With this work,
Pisarra has created a fearlessly inventive ‘cinephrastik,’ a lyrical homage to
a major filmmaker from the 20th century." – Regie Cabico, A Rabbit in Search
of a Rolex
"In
Pisarra’s Fassbinder, the psyche is set free, punching its way through a paper
partition, holding a bouquet of fluorescent daffodils. Here is a poet unafraid.
Here is a poet who frames stanzas like a cinematographer would. Here is a poet
who can light a match with his teeth. Listen to the sound of a camera clicking
behind each chiseled line—listen and watch out!" – Julie Poole, Bright Specimen
About Drew
Pisarra: A grantee of
Café Royal Cultural Foundation, Curious Elixirs: Curious Creators, and LMCC,
Drew Pisarra is author of poetry collections Infinity Standing Up
(“brazen and lusty and often amusing,” The Washington Post) and Periodic
Boyfriends (“strangely beautiful,” GCN).
About Anxiety
Press: This independent
publishing house, founded by Cody Sexton, is a new imprint of A Thin
Slice of Anxiety, a press devoted to the idea that books are compulsions
steeped in raw human emotion and intellect, coupled with a mission to
exclusively release manuscripts that emerge from the fringes of societal norms.
