North Carolina authors, Janice Moore Fuller and Lee Zacharias will visit City Lights Bookstore on Saturday, September 13th at 11 a.m. to read from and sign their books. Janice Moore Fuller will read from her new collection of poetry, On the Bevel. Her poetry is said to be accessible, lucid, and finely crafted, concentrating on themes that draw the reader in – change, loss, relationships, memory and language. This is wonderfully subtle, nuanced, intelligent and humane collection of poems; a book that deals seriously with the limitations of communication, but also takes a positive stance in engaging with the reader, giving the collection gravitas whilst remaining comprehensible. Fuller has written four collections of poetry and is the Writer-in-Residence and Professor of English at Catawba College in Salisbury, NC, where she has been awarded the Swink Prize for Outstanding Classroom Teacher by the Faculty Senate and has been selected Professor of the Year five times by popular vote of the students. Lee Zacharias will read from her new collection of essays, The Only Sounds We Make. These twelve deeply metaphorical essays are both intensely personal and vitally concerned with the larger world, including the kingdom beyond our ken. A deeply evocative memoir that explores the ways we attempt to give order to our lives through the powers of memory and speech. Exploring subjects as diverse as her father’s suicide, the great migration that changed the racial composition of Chicago’s south side, the nature of light, the geology of the Grand Canyon, or the landscape of a writer’s desk, Lee Zacharias writes with grace, precision, and candor about the experiences that shape our humanity and our relationships, parents, to our children, and to past, present, and future. Zacharias is the author of, Lessons and At Random, and a book of short stories, Helping Muriel Make It Through the Night. She has published numerous essays, short stories, and photographs and is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. To reserve copies of these books please call City Lights Bookstore at 828-586-9499.
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