Visit the front desk on the first floor for copies of the current book to be discussed. A zoom link will be emailed to the registrants the morning of the book club meeting. To register, visit the library'sĬalendar of events, choose the event, and click on register. The Library's Biography Book Club meets on the third Monday of the month (except July and August) at 6:30 pm on Zoom. With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation.” These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like “love” and “illness” now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. “With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence.
* A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year *
* A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice *
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