New Dominion Bookshop will host a book reading and signing with poet and essayist Laurance Wieder on Sunday, Oct. 27, from 2-3 p.m.
Wieder will be reading from his new books, After Adam, Isaiah’s Closing Arguments, and Poetry History Music Art. This event is free to attend.
“Larry Wieder is one of the great living poets who will not let the Divine die. He lives in all of us, in this book, in a dark time.” —Poet David Shapiro on After Adam
After Adam is a prosimetrum, a story told in prose and verse. Mortality is its theme. Populated by rabbis, storytellers, mystics, poets, travelers and philosophers, each chapter in this Old Testament saga corresponds with a Sabbath portion of Moses’s five books, as written in the Hebrew Bible.
Isaiah’s sacred poetry transcends place, time, and doctrine. Isaiah’s Closing Arguments is a new translation of all fourteen of the prophet’s farewells to the Torah scroll read on Sabbath mornings, plus four messages delivered on special occasions.
The 23 essays in Poetry History Music Art were published over the last quarter-century. They form a caravan of exiles and messiahs, poets and scholars, novelists and travelers, composers and artists assembled by the written word—that human thing which lasts.
Wieder is a widely published poet and independent scholar. Wieder and his wife, Andrea Korotky, moved to Charlottesville from New York in 2002. Over nine years (2005–2014) they collaborated on PoemSite, a roadside art and poetry installation in front of their home in Fry’s Spring. Laurance has worked as an editor, essayist, and anthologist, and has taught at Cornell, the Yale University School of Music, and the University of Virginia. He was also a Lincoln Center Institute staff artist. His editing for Camera Arts Magazine won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence.
About New Dominion Bookshop
Serving Albemarle and Central Virginia since 1924, New Dominion Bookshop is the oldest independent bookseller in Virginia. Located in Historic Downtown Charlottesville, New Dominion is a general trade bookshop that serves as the hub for readings and other literary events in the community. For more information, visit ndbookshop.com.
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