June 5
Poetry Book Club Jun 5 — Flagstaff City-Coconino County Public Library, 300 W. Aspen Ave., Flagstaff. 928-213-2332. 5:30-7 p.m., Join us for Poetry Book Club! This month we will read Bestiary by Donika Kelly. Pick up a copy at the Downtown Library's Information Desk. We will met in the Northwest Corner (past the Information Desk). The first hour will be dedicated to discussion with the last 30 minutes reserved for writing exercises! Synopsis: Across this remarkable first book are encounters with animals, legendary beasts, and mythological monsters -- half human and half something else. Donika Kelly's Bestiary is a catalogue of creatures -- from the whale and ostrich to the pegasus and chimera to the centaur and griffin. Among them too are poems of love, self-discovery, and travel, from "Out West" to "Back East." Lurking in the middle of this powerful and multifaceted collection is a wrenching sequence that wonders just who or what is the real monster inside this life of survival and reflection. Selected and with an introduction by the National Book Award winner Nikky Finney, Bestiary questions what makes us human, what makes us whole. .
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