Roof Books, one of NYC’s important underground poetry presses for the past 40 years, is proud to celebrate two new titles at the fabled Gallery at LPR: Sue Landers’ Franklinstein channeling Ben Franklin and Gertrude Stein in Germantown, a mashup of history, poetry, and human heartbreak. And Plato’s Closet by Lawrence Giffin, a single long poem that treads indelicately yet with profound subtlety on the subject of community—the city and the hinterland it populates with idyllic shepherds to distract from the scapegoats, thieves, heretics, and wolves proliferating there.
The event will feature readings by both writers and a general good time is expected for all.
This is a general admission event in The Gallery at LPR.
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Sue Landers
Susan Landers is the author of 248 mgs.: a panic picnic and Covers, both published by O Books. Her chapbooks include 15: A Poetic Engagement with the Chicago Manual of Style and What I Was Tweeting While You Were On Facebook. She was the founding editor of the journal Pom2 and has an MFA from George Mason University. She lives in Brooklyn.
Lawrence Giffin
Lawrence Giffin is the author of several books of poetry, including White Future, Christian Name, and Non Facit Saltus. His work has been anthologized in Against Expression and Best American Experimental Writing 2015. His translation of Alain Badiou’s “The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process” was published in Umbra. More can be found here. He lives in New York City.