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Wednesday, April 8, 6:00 PMNew Expressions—ELL Writing Group Open Book Free Call to Register: 612-215-2587. |
Wednesday, April 8, 7:00 PMLoft Member Series Publication ReadingJude Nutter—I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman Open Book Free
Nutter, who was born in England and grew up in Germany, has a visceral sense of history as a constant, violent companion. Drawing on a range of locales and historical moments—among them Rwanda, Sarajevo, Nagasaki, and both world wars—she replays the confrontation of personal history colliding with history as a social, political, and cultural force. In many of the poems, this confrontation is understood through the shift from childhood innocence and magical thinking to adult awareness and guilt. |
In “Return of the Heroes,” Walt Whitman refers to the casualties of the American Civil War: “the dead to me mar not. . . . / they fit very well in the landscape under the trees and grass. . . .” In her new poetry collection, Jude Nutter challenges Whitman’s statement by exploring her own responses to war and conflict and, in a voice by turns rueful, dolorous, and imagistic, reveals why she cannot agree.