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Integrative Wellness ~ 7025 Stockton Ave. Sunday, October 27th 4-‐6pm ~ Light refreshments provided. www.inwellhub.com ~ (510) 495-‐4449 “Ezra Pound’s definition of the epic—’A poem containing history’—demands courage and intellectual range, as well as lyrical gifts. Tess Taylor meets that challenge in The Forage House. A figure of epic scale, Taylor’s Thomas Jefferson is tragic as well: ‘ambitious foundering father.’ The poise, candor and reach of this book—with a vision that embraces the enigmas of contemporary El Cerrito along with those of the slave-owner Jefferson—are deeply impressive.” —Robert Pinsky “Tess Taylor’s The Forage House is a brave and compelling collection that bears witness to the journey of historical discovery. Sifting through archives, artifact, and souvenir, Taylor presents a dialectic of what’s recorded and what’s not, unearthing the traces that give way to her own history—and a vital link to our shared American past. What’s here and accounted for draws us powerfully toward what’s absent; what seems complete here never is—something as fragmented as history in the language, as haunted too.” —Natasha Trethewey The San Francisco Chronicle calls it "stunning!" The Barnes and Noble Review praises its "lightening flashes of lyric." Poetry Reading & Discussion by local El Cerrito author, Tess Taylor Sunday, October 27th A mini-history of our nation, her ambitious poems ignite fact into lyric flash as she implores her ancestors ‘to explain / their America, their prodigal / half-remembered, always present pain.’ The Forage House is a book of conscience and sensuous reckoning.” —Rosanna Warren 4pm-6pm FREE