A Thousand Flames Book Launch
Join us to celebrate the release of A Thousand Flames, the debut poetry collection by Corey S. Pressman.
Saturday Nov. 7th
6:00pm
Up Up Books
1452 NE 28th Ave
Portland, Oregon 97232-1717
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Corey S. Pressman’s debut collection, A Thousand Flames, offers poems of secular devotion, where a bird feeder can stand as the axis mundi and the bees have a god of their own. Across twelve sections, they travel from a Rockland County childhood to a hilltop in the fog, and as far back as the rooftops of Neolithic Çatalhöyük. Each poem asks you to slow down and stay a little longer than expected.
“Corey Pressman is a magical human – magical art, magical writing. His finely made poems are bells of vision and clarity to help us ‘stay the same changing.'” – Naomi Shihab Nye