Menlo Park poets Cintia Santana and Lisa Rosenberg appear together on April 3
On Thursday, April 3, from 7:00 to 8:00 pm, hear from Menlo Park poets Cintia Santana and Lisa Rosenberg at Books Inc. Palo Alto (74 Town & Country Village). They will be reading and discussing their poetry collections, The Disordered Alphabet and A Different Physics. The event occurs during the first week of National Poetry month.
Cintia Santana’s debut collection, The Disordered Alphabet, reckons with the emotional anarchy of our lives, baring the difficulty of wrestling experience into language. She surveys a cosmic crossroads, “the sluices of heaven wording as we [stand] in that great rushing wind within, yet without name, turning.” Santana writes in alliterative verse, in footnotes, in epistles to consonants and vowels, in ekphrasis, in thrall.
The poems in Lisa Rosenberg’s A Different Physics move with lyric power through natural and figurative landscapes, to worlds of cultural and intellectual models. A slide rule carries us from grief back to innocence. A silicon wafer for microchips reflects sexual politics and art history. Places, objects, and ideas launch explorations into our modes of industry and inquiry, and the very things —and lives — we have built.
