Please join Left Coast Writers® at Book Passage in Corte Madera for post-election poetic readings
Saturday November 9th, 2024 at 2pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
Left Coast Writers® features poets Laurel Feigenbaum and Linda Watanabe McFerrin.
The latest books by both writers reflect, through different lenses, upon a world slammed by pandemic and political strife.
Please come and join in for refreshments, readings and a post presentation chat!
POST-APOCALYPTIC VALENTINEby Linda Watanabe McFerrin
In a book that cheekily explores the body’s lusts and indiscretions, McFerrin moves through the dark and bright of the world, notating ethereal and passing loveliness
in lucid imagery. 
“In some ways, POST-Apocalyptic Valentine is a welcome, Feminist update of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl.” Prophecies such as “What Every Girl Should Know” urge us to recognize the damage we have done to the planet and acknowledge the regret we feel for what we have bequeathed to later generations.
—James Cihlar, PhD and author of The Shadowgraph (University of New Mexico Press, 2020)
LIFE IN NO ORDINARY TIMEby Laurel Feigenbaum
While the ninety-seven-year-old poet’s personal life and that of her family remains stable, the world suffers increasing turmoil—be it war, displacement, or threats to our democracy. Laurel Feigenbaum’s poems of time and place reflect her observations, thoughts, feelings, and reactions to the crosscurrents of events over the recent decade. Politics, advancing technology, climate change, a lingering virus, family and aging are all topics tackled in
Life in No Ordinary Time. 
“Wildfires and calving glaciers, war mongers, cryptocurrency, woke culture, unchecked technocracy, a demented demagogue, the surveillance state, the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer—the dreary earmarks of our zeitgeist seem endless. Laurel Feigenbaum takes them on with the perspicacity of her 96 years on earth and her trademark wit, dry as a three-olive martini.”
—Thomas Centolella, author of Almost Human