October 2, 2010, Saturday - The Loft presents poet Alvin Greenberg reading from Passionate Travelogue: New and Selected Poetic Sequences.

Time 7:00pm

Location: Target Performance Hall, The Loft Literary Center, 1011 Washinton Avenue South

Cost:  Free

The Loft presents poet Alvin Greenberg reading from Passionate Travelogue: New and Selected Poetic Sequences.

"Al Greenberg is a master of the poetry sequence, a form he has made his own—and made entirely contemporary and immediate. What a gift to have these book-length poems, written over a dedicated lifetime, together in one volume. The range here is remarkable, the intelligence always surprising, and the clarity of voice a great beauty. The humor delights, and the elegaic heart, rinsed of self-regard, is entirely winning. It could borrow Wordsworth's famous subtitle, "growth of a poet's mind," while adding "and his heart." This is a landmark collection by one of our best." —Patricia Hampl

"Alvin Greenberg, in this thrilling new work, leaves the earth through some tiny crack in consciousness, slips away through some gap in the five senses, and, like one of those science fiction voyagers, emerges in some new dimensions and finds a truer earth—the one in front of us that we can't see, the one we've lived on forever yet forgotten, the one we tell ourselves we know but don't, the one we've grown numb to but start, again, to feel. I haven't read poems this daring yet precise, this dreamy yet grounded, in many years—nor do I expect to for years to come." —Walter Kirn

Gathered together in this 350-page volume from Zahik Press are poems from five previous collections plus three new, previously uncollected sequences.