Sonora Review

Marilynne Robinson will be reading from her newest novel, Home, tonight (Friday 9/19 @ 8:00pm) and presenting a lecture on Wallace Stevens tomorrow (Saturday 9/20 @ 1:00pm) at the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center. Info: http://poetrycenter.arizona.edu/events/fallreadings_08.shtml

Sonora Review Issue 55 will contain both a review of Home and the text of a conversation-style interview with Robinson, to be conducted by Editor-at-Large Brannon Larson following the lecture. The interview is open to the public and all are welcome.

“That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly unclothed when we lack the complacencies of ordinary life. In destitution, even of feeling or purpose, a human being is more hauntingly human and vulnerable to kindnesses because there is the sense that things should be otherwise, and then the thought of what is wanting and what alleviation would be, and how the soul could be put at ease, restored. At home. But the soul finds its own home if it ever has a home at all.”

From Home © Marilynne Robinson