Yrsa Daley-Ward
reads from and discusses
bone
joined by JOSHUA BENNETT
This event includes a book signing
DateOct
9
Monday
October 9, 2017 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 celebrated poet YRSA DALEY-WARD for a reading and discussion of bone, a poignant collection of autobiographical poems about the heart, life, and the inner self. Daley-Ward will be joined by local poet JOSHUA BENNETT, reading from The Sobbing School.
About bone
Bone. Visceral. Close to. Stark.
The poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward’s collection bone are exactly that: reflections on a particular life honed to their essence—so clear and pared-down, they become universal.
From navigating the oft competing worlds of religion and desire, to balancing society’s expectations with the raw experience of being a woman in the world; from detailing the experiences of growing up as a first generation black British woman, to working through situations of dependence and abuse; from finding solace in the echoing caverns of depression and loss, to exploring the vulnerability and redemption in falling in love, each of the raw and immediate poems in Daley-Ward’s bone resonate to the core of what it means to be human.
“You will come away bruised.
You will come away bruised
but this will give you poetry.”
Foreword by Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division
Praise
"Yrsa’s work is like holding the truth in your hands. It sweats and breathes before you. A glorious living thing.” —Florence Welch
“Yrsa Daley-Ward’s bone is a symphony of breaking and mending. This whole book is an ache, and a balm. Daley-Ward effortlessly mines the bone, the diamond from the difficult, the things that are too bright and taboo. She lays her hands on the pulse of the thing and gives wide air to the epic realities of women. The unfamiliar. The familiar. Sexuality. Poverty. Sex work. Sadness. Joy. Damage. And restoration. Assigning them all the grace. All the nurturing. And all the love they deserve. An expert storyteller of the rarest and purest kind—Daley-Ward is uncannily attentive and in tune to the things beneath life, beneath the skin, beneath the weather of the everyday. Her poetry and prose are intimate and distant, sonorous and staunch, delicate and metal, unwilling to yield, and wondrously supple. Daley-Ward’s extraordinary talent, ability, to both see and write the veins of the true life, the true lives, is a gift. A breath.” —Nayyirah Waheed, author of salt. and nejma
“Yrsa Daley-Ward is at the realm of a new wave of contemporary poets who inspire an unprecedented level of empathy and accessibility through their honest and raw approach. . . A powerful collection of a woman facing tumultuous inner and external battles head on, delivered with a hard-hitting directness, yet with inflections of optimism throughout that are bound to touch readers to their core.” —i-D Magazine
“The actor, author, model, and poet draws from her own experiences as well as issues affecting today’s society throughout her work and is truly a storyteller (‘some tall, some dark’) of the soul.” —POPSUGAR
Books by Our Speakers
The featured book for this event is Yrsa Daley-Ward's bone, which will be for sale at the event for 20% off. Copies of Joshua Bennett's The Sobbing School will also be available for purchase.
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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