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Sadie Dupuis
presents
Mouthguard
This event includes a book signing
DateOct
31
Wednesday
October 31, 2018 7:00 PM ET |
LocationHarvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Tickets
This event is free; no tickets are required.
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Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed musician SADIE DUPUIS—lead singer of Speedy Ortiz and the solo act Sad13—for a discussion of her debut poetry collection, Mouthguard.
About Mouthguard
The poems in Sadie Dupuis’ Mouthguard are a means of developing a deep personal mythology; to read them is to feel what self-discovery is, and then recognize it in the rearview mirror, disappearing over the broken American horizon. They emerge from the place where known experience and the unknown collide; a borderline we all cross on the way to becoming ourselves.
Like crying alone in a movie theater, Mouthguard is tender, self-deprecating, nostalgic, and unavoidably romantic. In the end, we’re all simultaneously comforted and freaked out by the idea that there is something bigger and deeper in the quiet spaces operating within us, something just out of reach. This book gives us the language to describe this, a solid place we can remember together.
Praise
"The contents of Mouthguard deserve to be deeply analyzed in classrooms and written in permanent marker on jeans and tattooed on forearms. You will read these poems and then your thoughts will rearrange in the air. They reveal themselves as your own large eyes, blinking back at you." —Melissa Lozada-Oliva
"Dizzyingly gorgeous syntax and imagery come together to explore and reveal the sad strangeness of life in Sadie Dupuis’ phenomenal collection. Beneath a surface of incredibly well-crafted language lie poems that swell and brim with emotion and existential tension. Every gut-punch of a line feels earned and necessary, and each page begs to be read and reread with the same fervor. I am so grateful for the existence of this magic." —Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
"Mouthguard comforts you, then throws you into a lake, leaving you laughing and shivering at the same time." —Mira Gonzalez
"This is a book where magical poems drive us with a holy momentum towards a lonely road where on the side of it we can find a party of accidents that we are all invited to." —Dorothea Lasky
Walking from the Harvard Square T station: 2 minutes
As you exit the station, reverse your direction and walk east along Mass. Ave. in front of the Cambridge Savings Bank. Cross Dunster St. and proceed along Mass. Ave for three more blocks. You will pass Au Bon Pain, JP Licks, and TD Bank. Harvard Book Store is located at the corner of Mass. Ave. and Plympton St.
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