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Date(s) - 07/11/2022
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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Founders Hall at UUFSD
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On July 11th, we will be discussing a memoir by Poet Laureate Joy Harjo:
Crazy Brave (2012). If you read her poetry, bring your favorite poem to share.
Harjo’s tale of a hardscrabble youth, young adulthood, and transformation into an award-winning poet and musician is haunting, unique, and visionary.
Book Club meets the 2nd Monday of every month at 6:30pm in the evening at UUFSD. For questions, email bookclub@uufsd.org or call/text Cathy Leach-Phillips at 650 224-1974. Look *here* for more info.
For our July discussion:
Joy Harjo is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She is the author of nine poetry collections and two previous memoirs. Named Poet Laureate of the United States in 2019, she lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she is a Tulsa Artist Fellow.
In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual life, and connection with the natural world. She attended an Indian arts boarding school, where she nourished an appreciation for painting, music, and poetry; gave birth while still a teenager; and struggled on her own as a single mother, eventually finding her poetic voice.
In August, on the 8th, our Classic selection will be Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.
To the Lighthouse (5 May 1927) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporality and psychological exploration.
The plot is secondary to philosophical introspection, and the prose can be winding and hard to follow. The novel includes little dialogue and almost no action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations. The novel recalls the power of childhood emotions and highlights the impermanence of adult relationships. Among the book’s many tropes and themes are those of loss, subjectivity, and the problem of perception.
[Oh, I’m SO excited! -cathy l-p]
Posted by Cathy Leach-Phillips