You are invited to public self-flagellation at Strand Bookstore in New York City on March 26th at 7pm.
I will be reading from new poetry book, "No Time Like Now" (Pitt Poetry Series, University of Pittsburgh Press). More details are to be found in the calendar at codrescu.com. Other details are going to be revealed strictly for you if you do me the honor of showing up.
In preparation for the event I read several thousand incendiary words by H.P. Blavatsky, who put me in a spiritist and spiritual state of mind. Hopefully, the benefits of this lecture will be of use to all of us. In any case, whatever ails you will stop hurting for the duration of the performance. And maybe a week after.
Needless to say, reading at Strand Bookstore was always one of my Three Wishes. The others were: being published by City Lights Books, which came to pass (thank and happy 100th birthday, Lawrence Ferlinghetti!), and being translated and published by Gallimard, which hasn't yet happened, though it will, even if Gallimard wasn't what it used to be when I first wished it at age 19.
The Strand is the last standing Pillar of the Book in the City that sleeps most of the time these days. Show up and we will keep it from landmark-attack. Thank you.
In other news, I was in London and watched a half hour of incomprehensible live TV from Parliament. The Brits want out of Europe at all costs, and in jubilant self-mutilation they started stocking eggs, butter, oranges, and wine. They are nostalgic for the Great War. They have suffered enough Prosperity. Stupidity rules on both sides of the Atlantic.
Come stock up on my poems: they will keep you well-disposed while the morons shoot off their toes. Order book/tickets here
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