Open Books: Events
September 26, 2010 03:00 PM
IN THEIR CUPS w/A.J. Rathbun & Pals
Seattle's own A.J. Rathbun sports a resume as rare and intriguing as a bottle of scotch salvaged from a shipwreck. Not only is he the author of a collection of poetry (Want, published by ZYZZYVA/Creative Arts) and the co-founder of LitRag (a much missed literary magazine and poetry press), he is also a well respected mixologist, whose books on cocktails include, among others, Dark Spirits and Luscious Liqueurs. Given that pedigree, it was inevitable he should edit In Their Cups: Poems about Drinking Places, Drinks, and Drinkers ($9.95 Harvard Common Press), an anthology that sets out to be "a cocktail party where poets from throughout the centuries gather around the bar to spin stories, odes, and songs of sorrow and happiness, surrounded by bottles, ice, you, and your friends." The poets represented range from Catullus, Li Po, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Guillaume Apollinaire, John Clare, Emily Dickinson, and Paul Laurence Dunbar to Richard Hugo, Stephen Dunn, Amy Fleury, Mark Halliday, Gerald Stern, and Chase Twichell. Mr. Rathbun will be joined by several contributors, including, but not limited to, Emily Bedard, Allen Braden, and James Gurley.
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