Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Join City of Asylum for an evening of reading and discussion celebrating poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s Rocket Fantastic. Poet Shannon Sanky will open the program. Like nothing before it, Rocket Fantastic transfigures the landscape and language of gender and the body. Its poems are populated by figures both familial and fabular: a prodigal brother and a relentless father; the Hermit, Dowager, and Major General; and, perhaps most strikingly, the Bandleader, embodiment of sexual, capitalistic, and political dominance. Mythic and musical, erogenous yet wide-eyed, this is a dazzling book by a space-age troubadour of American poetry.