Last Thursday's Poetry, Prosecco & Pasta event featured Erin Moure and her intriguing book, O Resplandor. Our moderator, the always excellent Priscila Uppal, helped us enter this complex work by picking recurring or signifcant words out of the poems and using them as a springboard for discussion, as well as taking "question-postcards" from the audience.
The discussion ranged from the art of translation, to the conceptual gap of a character in the book translating a Romanian text without actually knowing Romanian, to the limericks Erin started writing at a young age - one of which she kindly recited for our enjoyment.
Of course, the food at Grano was bellissimo! So all in all, it was a fantastic night and we're looking forward to our final one this Thursday July 22 - featuring Daniel David Moses and his book Sixteen Jesuses, moderated by Moira MacDougall.
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