Wed, Apr 30
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Elizabeth Jacobson, There Are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral
"Curious, eloquent, surprising, and probing, this book takes a hard, compassionate look at what it means to be human right now, moment to moment, on this injured planet." -Chase Twichell, author of Things as It Is
Date, Time & Location
Apr 30, 2025, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Elizabeth will be in conversation with poet dg okpik, who will read her own works.
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom here.
Order There Are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral from CWB online here ($17.55, paperback) or call the store to order (505) 988-4226. Signed copies will be available after the event.
dg okpik's Pulitzer award-nominated book, Blood Snow ($18, paperback), is available online here.
"Elizabeth Jacobson’s new poems are both profound and transparent, which is rare. Also rare is their intimacy with the natural world, rendered in language memorable for its near-microscopic observation and precision. Set in the desert, the tropics, and the human mind, the poems move fluently from family to ecological grief to the life of the spirit and beyond. Curious, eloquent, surprising, and probing, this book takes a hard, compassionate look at what it means to be human…