Poetry and Prose at Basically Books
First Friday in July brings an evening of poetry and prose starting at 6:00PM at Basically Books, located in historic Downtown Hilo! Be sure to check out the rest of the First Friday events by clicking here!
Crazing by Ruth Thompson
July 1st 6:00 PM
Woman With Crows is a celebration of the aging feminine body and the sensual earth. In Crazing she explores the experience of physical and mental dissolution, loss of language, and the “delamination” of the planet whose body she shares. Yet the book resolves in expansion, laughter, joy
A Red Woman Was Crying by Don Mitchell
July 1st 6:20 pm
Don Mitchell’s new collection of short stories, set among tribal people on Bougainville Island in the late 1960s, demystifies ethnography by turning it on its head. Beautifully written, evocative, and utterly original.
