Readings By Writers: July Westhale
Thu, Aug 06
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Via Negativa. July recommends buying her book at your favorite independent bookstore or online at Alley Cat Bookstore https://www.alleycatbookshop.com/shop-online
Time & Location
Aug 06, 2020, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM PDT
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About the Event
“Via Negativa,” often used to talk about the divine: a way of describing what something is by describing what it is not, is a book about the more difficult, but truer, ways of talking about the ecstatic world. Half grappling with divinity and the many manifestations of gender/the self , and half an ars poetica, Via Negativa is a gorgeous holy dunking, a submersion into a rich field of lyricism and emotion, a mikva that yearns to leave the reader clear-eyed and bright. Diving into verbal lostness, the hatred of poetry, mythology, and the epistemology of identity, this book challenges the tripartite notion of holiness and its relationship to poetic duty.