Sophie Cabot Black Geometry of the Restless Herd. Poetry
May 28 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Poet Sophie Cabot Black visits Boston with her recent book; Geometry of the Restless Herd from which she will offer a reading of poems.
“In Geometry of the Restless Herd Sophie Cabot Black stages a powerful allegory for the social and political realities of our human world. Through hauntingly metaphysical poems set within a sheepherder’s domain, Black conjures fields of harvest and resurrection, of wagers and outcomes—animals to keep, and those to send to slaughter. Here, both singular voices and polyvocal choruses ask, Who has the real power, and how are we to survive the violence we do to one another?
Sophie Cabot Black has three poetry collections from Graywolf Press, The Misunderstanding of Nature, which received the Poetry Society of America’s First Book Award, The Descent, which received the 2005 Connecticut Book Award, The Exchange. Her poetry has appeared in numerous magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review. Cooper Canyon Press publishes Geometry of the Restless Herd in 2024.
