Join Rachel Hadas, guest editor of The Waiting Room Reader: Volume 2, for the release of her latest book of poetry.
Reading and Reception to Celebrate the Publication of
The Golden Road
Made possible through Poets House Literary Partner Space Sharing Program
February 1, 2013 at 6 p.m.
Elizabeth Kray Hall
The Poets House
10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282
www.poetshouse.org
The event is free and open to the public, and there will be a reception immediately following.
Elizabeth Kray Hall
The Poets House
10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282
www.poetshouse.org
The event is free and open to the public, and there will be a reception immediately following.
“Richly crafted… Highly recommended for all contemporary collections”
—Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW
“Hadas presents a poised journey through different kinds of loss, seeking not lamentation but discovery”
—Publishers Weekly
A central theme of The Golden Road is the prolonged dementia of the poet’s husband. But Rachel Hadas’s new collection sets the loneliness of progressive loss in the context of the continuities that sustain her: reading, writing, and memory; familiar places; and the rich texture of a life fully lived. These poems are meticulously observed, nimble in their deployment of a range of forms, and capacious in their range of reference. They take us to a Greek island, to Carl Schurz Park in New York City, to an old house in Vermont, to a performance of Macbeth, and to the neurology floor of a hospital. Hadas finds beauty in all those places. The Golden Road laments, but it also celebrates.
Rachel Hadas is a professor of English at the Newark College of Arts and Sciences of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She is also a poet, translator, and essayist. Her most recent books are The Ache of Appetite (2010), a collection of poems; and Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry (2011).
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