Villanova English Professor Catherine Staples will be launching her newest collection of poetry, Vert, at a special event taking place at Main Point Books on Tuesday, May 7th, at 7 p.m. She will be joined by fellow VU English professor and poet Tsering Wangmo Dhompa.
Per Main Point Books's website: "This event is free; registrations are requested via Eventbrite. Walk-ins are welcome as space permits. The event will be in the store's lower-level event space."
Here is some further information about the book and Professor Staples, borrowed from Main Point Book's event page:
About the Book
Catherine Staples grew up in Massachusetts and it’s there—in New England woods, meadows, and Cape Cod coasts—that the loss of her brother plays out as a quest across space and time: from a weathervane in Madison Square Park to a rusty pump in the Catskills, from words etched on nineteenth-century glass to the track of skates on the Charles River. Place is at the heart of the transformation of loss. So, too, are myth and the lives of New England’s early naturalists and Transcendentalists. Henry David Thoreau’s narrative echoes and enlarges hers. He, too, lost a brother and found his way by tuning ear, eye, and stride to “the living earth,” a new way of seeing things.
Vert is an old word in danger of being lost or misunderstood “In English forest law,” it’s “everything that grows and forms a green leaf, serving as cover for deer.” It’s suggestive of habitat, our imperiled earth, the small spinney of a brother’s memory.
About the Author
Catherine Staples is the author of The Rattling Window and Never a Note Forfeit. Her poems and reviews have appeared in The Academy of American Poets, Kenyon Review, POETRY, The Massachusetts Review, The Southern Review, The Yale Review and others. Awards include the Guy Owen, a McGovern Poetry Prize, and a Walter Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She teaches in the Honors and English programs at Villanova University.
You can register ahead of time, for free, for this reading at eventbrite.
