An Afternoon of Poetry with John Tipton and Liza Hudock
Liza Hudock and John Tipton will be reading and discussing their new books of poetry, Reveille and Believers and Seven Sermons from the Bacchae, respectively. A Q&A and signing will follow.
At the Co-op
About the Books: The poems in Liza Hudock’s Reveille offer an unvarnished look at the tenacious ties that bind us to family, home, and to ways of talking.
Over the last two decades, John Tipton has directed his energy at once toward innovative translations of Greek tragedies and his own gnomic poetry about the uses of myth and syntax. The twain meet in Believers and Seven Sermons from the Bacchae, an idiosyncratic offering of Euripides’ Bacchae interlaced with passages from the Gospel of Mark (among other texts). In setting one of the last and most skeptical plays of Euripides against Mark, we see Tipton returning to the experimental roots of his poetry and the evangelical origins of his uneasy fascination with faith. As Sarah Ruden writes in her foreword: “I commend this bold, subtle, intoxicating blend: anyone who is curious about the history and nature of belief can drink deeply and think deeply while reading this book.”
About the Authors: John Tipton was born in 1964 in Alton, Illinois and he currently lives in Chicago. After an itinerant childhood — mostly in Indiana — and a stint in the army, he attended the University of Chicago, where he earned a degree in philosophy. His first collection, surfaces, was published by Flood Editions in 2004. Since then he has published three volumes of poetry and translation from the ancient Greek. He is the publisher of Verge Books, a small literary press he runs with Peter O’Leary.
Liza Hudock lives in Detroit, Michigan. A veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard, she received her MFA from Warren Wilson College. Reveille is her first collection of poems.
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