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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Dust Bowl Venus by Stella Beratlis (Sixteen Rivers Press\, 2021) \nJoin our online discussion  of Dust Bowl Venus by Stella Beratlis on Wednesday\, February 23\, 2022 at 6:30pm PT. Prior reading is not required. Copies of the book are available to borrow at the circulation desk of the Modesto Stanislaus County Library.  To check on the books’ status\, please call 209-558-7808. \nRegister in advance for the Zoom link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vc-Gtqz0pHdQn9dapR_G_8EvWCeuvrtvg \n\n“With tenderness\, wit and humor\, Dust Bowl Venus explores the fragility of love\, good health an:d the earth. Rooted not just in the places of the City of Modesto but also in the music\, legends\, and community of the Central Valley\, these poems brilliantly reflect a struggle to find beauty in the contradictions of our contemporary lives. Amazingly thoughtful and musical\, these are poems we should all read.” —July Halebsky\, author of Sky=Empty\, Tree Line\, and Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged) \n“Stella Beratlis’s Dust Bowl Venus animates California’s Central Valley as a postmodern Prometheus\, an eco-sapient Frankenstein with whom we wrangle\, wrestle\, and fall madly in love. Marked with sass and grit and grace\, Beratlis’s imagistic associations jolt and jump cut in powers of ten. These poems stir us with the urgency of the Anthropocene\, excite ‘a thicket of nerves\,’ and form a ‘mycorrhizal web’ that connects us to the mantle of deep time.” —Rosa Lane\, author of Chouteau’s Chalk and Tiller North \n“The poems in Stella Beratlis’s Dust Bowl Venus ring with the clarity of a shovel strike against stone\, each line cracking against the next\, igniting spark after glorious spark. And yet\, like the seasonal lake bed on which Modesto sits\, like the many hands ‘making mud out of dry soil\,; every poem aches toward tenderness. In one poem\, Beratlis asks ‘What grows here?’ before revealing the bounty—heirloom tomatoes\, holy basil\, kindness—that can be coaxed from this ‘city of drought.’ But darker things grow here\, too: a tumor ‘the consistency of a potato\,’ fear\, terror that ‘builds cell by sticky cell.’ Here\, to grow\, and to love\, is to risk vulnerability. These ‘bone and ligament narratives’ of grief and yearning\, illness and healing\, perseverance and resistance\, beat with so much heart in this fiercely beautiful book.” —Erin Rodoni\, author of Body\, in Good Light and A Landscape for Loss \n\nStella Beratlis grew up in a second-generation Greek-American family in Northern California. Her latest collection\, Dust Bowl Venus\, was published in May 2021. She is also the author of Alkali Sink (Sixteen Rivers Press\, 2015). Her work has also appeared in numerous journals\, including Harbor Review\, Penumbra\, Song of the San Joaquin\, In-Posse Review\, and California Quarterly\, as well as in the anthologies The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems from the San Francisco Bay Watershed (Sixteen Rivers Press\, 2010) and California Fire and Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology (Story Streets\, 2020). She is coeditor of the collection More Than Soil\, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets (Quercus Review Press\, 2011) and served as the poet laureate of Modesto from 2016–2020. Beratlis lives in Modesto and is a librarian there. \nYou are invited to a Zoom meeting.\nWhen: Feb 23\, 2022 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nRegister in advance for this meeting: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vc-Gtqz0pHdQn9dapR_G_8EvWCeuvrtvg \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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