Jonathan Weinert, author of In the Mode of Disappearance
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In the Mode of Disappearance, poems by Jonathan Weinert
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Nightboat Books
 
 
In the Mode of Disappearance
Winner of the 2006 Nightboat Poetry Prize

Inventive as hell, within its own formal limitations and liberations, In the Mode of Disappearance is as thinking as it is feeling, and never solely linear. It charts the progression of the soul, fleeing and in constant flight, while confronting the known possibilities of new earth and after-earth. A contemporary, non cultish, spirituality fuels Weinert’s prosody, neo sermonish. And yes, the pages, hot with what Aimé Césaire calls Poetic Knowledge, almost glow. This is an amazing debut. The beginning of what happens after “the leaving”, not just “the healing,” has begun.

 
Jonathan Weinert has more emotional and technical range than almost any contemporary poet I know of. These poems move easily between high formalism and experimentalism, always with wit, sonic inventivness and erudition. Finally, though, it is his human insight and lyrical subtlety that will make In the Mode of Disappearance one of the best poetry books to be published this year. Jonathan Weinert is a marvelous writer.
 
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May 30, 2008 | On the Air | 11:00 a.m.
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Live call-in talk show, with fellow Spalding authors Dawn Shamp and Kathryn Eastburn.

May 30, 2008 | Reading | 7:00 p.m.
Celebration of Recently Published Books by Alumni
Brown Hotel, Crystal Ballroom
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With Julia Watts, Dawn Shamp, Pam Steele, Joey Goebel, Kathryn Eastburn, and Erin Keane.

June 21, 2008 | Reading | 7:00 p.m.
Lesley University
MFA in Writing Residency
Cambridge, MA

With a staged reading by playwright and screenwriter Barry Brodsky.

June 22, 2008 | Reading | 2:00 p.m.
Book Launch Reading at the Concord Poetry Center
Emerson Umbrella for the Arts
40 Stow St, Concord, MA

With Christina Davis, poetry editor at Nightboat Books.