Meet the
Author Series at Paragraphs
Saturday April 18th
2015
1 to 3 PM
Poets on Padre
Book
discussion, reading and signing with poets Geoff Rips
and
Chip Dameron
“Waiting
for an Etcher”. From life along the South Texas
border to travels abroad to the vitality of family bonds, Waiting for an Etcher
provides a series of memorable images and insights.
Chip Dameron’s eye for detail and
gift of phrasing offer readers the opportunity to enter the world of each poem
and experience its landscape.
Chip Dameron is the author of five
collections of poems and a travel book. His poems and essays on contemporary writers
have appeared in numerous literary magazines and journals around the country
and abroad. He has co-edited two literary magazines, Thicket and Chachalaca
Poetry Review, and served on the editorial board of four others. A two-time nominee
for the Pushcart Prize in poetry and a member of the Texas Institute of
Letters, he lives and writes in Brownsville, Texas
“The Calculus of Falling
Bodies”. The poems in this collection span the 40 years in
which Geoff Rips has undertaken a deeply personal attempt to understand the
mystery of things. The pieces parallel his interest in the greater world and
burrow deep inside his own psyche in the attempt to find meaning. His poems
include the pantheon of subjects embraced by poets through the ages—life,
death, love, and family—and they discuss the natural world and the material
world, reality TV shows, looking for work, traffic, the lives of window washers
and hot dog vendors, the wetlands, and pelicans, plovers, and dolphins. This is
the whole of life, seen by looking closely at its parts.
Geoff
Rips was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He is a former editor of the Texas
Observer and has been a Soros Open Society Institute Fellow. He worked as
the Freedom-to-Write Committee coordinator for PEN American Center and was the
principal author of its important report, UnAmerican Activities (City
Lights Books, 1981). His 2008 novel, The Truth, received the AWP
(Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Award for the Novel. Rips has
worked with community organizations along the Texas/Mexico border to bring
water and wastewater services to border colonias. He currently works for Texas
Rio Grande Legal Aid. He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and PEN
American Center and has published poetry, fiction and journalism in various
places over the years. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Nancy
Maniscalco. They have two daughters, Gabriela and Sascha.
This event is free and open to the public
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