Please Join Us for a Fundraiser for Red Salmon Arts: Transformations/
6 pm, Saturday, August 2, 2014
6 pm, Saturday, August 2, 2014
Resistencia Bookstore
4926 E. César Chávez St. Unit C1
Austin, Tejas 78702
A Reading by
Liliana Valenzuela, Author of Codex of Journeys/Bendito Camino
& A Reading by
ire’ne lara silva, Author of Flesh To Bone
Recipient of the 2013 Premio Aztlán
with Fandango Tejas
Suggested Donation: $7 Chalupa Plate (2 Chalupas with All the Fixings + Side of Rice)
$2 Raspas ∙ $1 Sodas/Waters Also Available
through the Cultural Arts Division believing an investment
in the Arts is an investment in Austin’s future.
Visit Austin at NowPlayingAustin.com.
7 pm Saturday, 9 August 2014
Red Salmon Arts Presents
The Possibilities of Mud: A Reading and Book Signing with Poet Joe Jiménez
The Possibilities of Mud: A Reading and Book Signing with Poet Joe Jiménez
Joe Jiménez is the 2012 recipient of the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Poetry Prize and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. Jiménez is the author of The Possibilities of Mud (Korima Press, 2014). He lives in San Antonio, Texas. For more information, visit joejimenez.net
The Possibilities of Mud roots down in the Texas Gulf. In league with the deer of the arroyos and the heron like the pelican and the dunlin, Jiménez makes stays of the other Gulf animals of the mud-flat world, holds, in a time of grief. The cattle egret is a golden life as much as she is white— each creature: a lesson in how to let the world be enough. For Jiménez, as sanderling is to speaker, crane is to reader. These poems touch the world not to take from it but to know it, to belong to it more fully. There is the long song of grief, and there’s praise, too. At once in mourning and in worship, he’s said his beloved is the larger body of the world, where we hear Mary Oliver, and in his narrative movements, there is Mark Doty. As Jiménez renders the violent end to a long relationship, he makes notations for a praise song, prayers toward how to go on.
The Possibilities of Mud roots down in the Texas Gulf. In league with the deer of the arroyos and the heron like the pelican and the dunlin, Jiménez makes stays of the other Gulf animals of the mud-flat world, holds, in a time of grief. The cattle egret is a golden life as much as she is white— each creature: a lesson in how to let the world be enough. For Jiménez, as sanderling is to speaker, crane is to reader. These poems touch the world not to take from it but to know it, to belong to it more fully. There is the long song of grief, and there’s praise, too. At once in mourning and in worship, he’s said his beloved is the larger body of the world, where we hear Mary Oliver, and in his narrative movements, there is Mark Doty. As Jiménez renders the violent end to a long relationship, he makes notations for a praise song, prayers toward how to go on.
New & Recent Titles:
Red Medicine: Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing by Patrisia Gonzales {University of Arizona Press}
The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration by David Bacon {Beacon}
Puro Conjunto edited by Juan Tejada & Avelarado Valdez {UT Press}
Las niñas: A Collection of Childhood Memories by Sarah Rafael García {Floricanto Press}
Indio Trails by raúlrsalinas {Wings Press}
The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance by Nasser Abufarha {Duke Univ. Press}
Austin's Rosewood Neighborhood by Jane H. Rivera and Gilberto C. Rivera {Arcadia Publishing}
Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of War Years, 1960-1975 by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz {University of Oklahoma Press}
A Journey Around our America: A Memoir on Cycling, Immigration, and the Latinozation of the US by Louis G. Mendoza {UT Press}
Brazos, Carry Me by Pablo Miguel Martinez {Korima Press}
The Black Panther Suite: All Power to the People! music-video performance DVD: music & concept by Fred Ho/ Art by Paul Chan {Big Red Media}
Levante/Get Up (CD) by Krudas Cubensi
Altepee (CD) Son Jarocho desde Veracruz, Mexico
Lyrical Lessons (CD) by The Cipher
Anne Braden: Southern Patriot (DVD) a film by Anne Lewis & Mimi Pickering
Resistencia Bookstore:
a liberated space for independent thinking, community building, and creative & revolutionary vision
New Location: 4926 East César Chávez St., Unit C1, Austin, Tejas 78702
Please make sure to park in the rear of the lot and
enter through the second door of the lime green house from the front.
All Events are Free Unless Indicated and Open to the Public
