Fri, Mar 07
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Mary Morris, Lanterns in the Night Market & Rebecca Aronson, Anchor
Mary Morris' "Lanterns in the Night Market" is a love letter to the world. Rebecca Aronson's latest poems contemplate and address what anchors us, literally and figuratively.
Date, Time & Location
Mar 07, 2025, 6:00 PM MST
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom here.
Pre-order Lanterns in the Night Market online from CWB here (publishing Feb 15, $21.95, paperback), and Anchor online here ($16,00, paperback), or call the store to order (505) 988-4226.
Lanterns in the Night Market: Weaving diverse cultures, vast landscapes, and ecological concerns, crossing beauty with danger, these poems are an invitation to the realm of possibility and enchantment. A flamenco dancer seduces his audience in Spain, and lovers travel through Istanbul. Writers live in exile while a menu for a dictator endangers the earth. The full moon shines over the Serengeti as nocturnal animals gather. Glaciers of Mount Kilimanjaro melt too quickly. A poet writes from his house near the beached skeleton of a whale. Lanterns in the Night Market is a love letter to the world.
Anchor: Threaded with epistolary poems to Gravity—envisioned as a capricious god as the…