Sonora Review

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Chax Press Poetry & Concert
Saturday, January 30, 2010, 7:30 PM

RON SILLIMAN and MARILYN CRISPELL in an evening of poetry and improvised music, with Silliman offering a reading of his work, and Crispell featured in a solo jazz piano concert. Presented by Chax Press with cosponsorship by The University of Arizona Poetry Center and POG.

Recital Hall, Pima Center for the Arts, Pima Community College West Campus, 2202 West Anklam, Tucson. $10; tickets on sale one month in advance at Bentley’s and at Antigone Books, or directly from Chax Press ($8 if purchased from Chax Press directly, before the night of the event). Phone 520-620-1626.

Ron Silliman is one of America’s most consistently challenging and rewarding poets, with more than 30 books to his credit, most recently The Alphabet. The Times Literary Supplement opines, “Ron Silliman’s ongoing long poem The Alphabet… mingles quotidian observation, linguistic-philosophical reflection, and street-level social critique to produce as vivid, systemic, and cumulatively moving an account of contemporary life as any poet now writing.”

Silliman’s Blog: A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics, has had over 2.5 million hits since its inception in 2003.