Matthew Minicucci Reading: "Translation"

Matthew Minicucci will be at Indy Reads Books from 7-8 PM for a free reading and signing of his new poetry collection, “Translation.”   “Translation” is Minicucci’s first full-length collection of poems and won the 2014 Wick Poetry Prize. It was chosen by Jane Hirshfield, who says:

“What are we to do with anger? What are we to do with love? What are we to do with one another, given all that happens and has happened between us? These are a few of the questions that haunt Matthew Minicucci’s deeply original and profoundly moving poems. In work personal and learned, steeped in familial life, the natural world, and the culture’s storehouse of literature, myth, and history, Minicucci transforms outward knowledge and observation into accurate and deftly navigable vessels of inner life. Whales’ hearts and family stories; etymologies, metrics, and syntax; the war machines and fishing lures of past and present worlds—all are harnessed together, hammered together, in this book-long exploration of our shared and particular human fates.”

Learn more about the book here: http://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2014/translation/.