Woman Became the Every Dress a Decision Elizabeth Austin
Writer Norelle Done has created a cool blog about Seattle-area writers and the publishing world. She's posted dozens of interviews on a huge range of topics. Earlier this month, she talked with me about how I became a writer, and about the process of writing and shaping Every Dress a Decision. You can read Norelle's interview with me here, or browse the site at SeattleWrote.com.
I'm indebted to poet Kathleen Kirk for this review of Every Dress a Decision in the online journal Prick of the Spindle.
Not only did she give the book multiple close and generous readings, she completely got what I was trying to do with these poems and with the book as a whole:
This is a book of baptism by fire ("House Fire") and baptism by total immersion (on "Shi Shi Beach"). It is a record of one woman's search for a lost self and her decision, daily, to find or be a new self, as healed or whole as any of us might be… (Read more)
You'll find Kathleen Kirk's poetry and reviews by visiting her blog.
Huge thanks to Nancy Guppy and Valerie Vozza for this profile and introduction to Every Dress a Decision on ArtZone.
Watch it here; the poetry segment starts at 1:50. This four and a half minute video feature will give you an introduction to my performance style and some insight into how and why I write. It also features artist Juan Carlos Castellanos, pianist Walt Wagner, Matthew Clark's Tea Cozies video and Kaleidoscope Dance.
ArtZone airs on KCTS and the Seattle Channel; it's a great program for meeting all kinds of Pacific NW artists. More info here.
Many thanks to Pat Muir at the Yakima Herald for this review of Every Dress a Decision. It's accompanied by an excerpt from "The Girl Who Goes Alone," and a sidebar on Blue Begonia Press. It's hard to describe what an intense, and intensely weird, feeling it is to have someone I've never met (except once, on the phone) write about my book.
I was up on Orcas Island when Pat interviewed me for the article last week. We talked for about 45 minutes, and I was struck by how carefully he'd read the book. And reading the article I am feeling extremely grateful for such a generous, nuanced response.
Among other things, Pat writes a regular column for the Yakima Herald called "The Indoorsman" and had a lovely post about David Foster Wallace, and the relationship between writers and readers. Worth checking out.
You can buy Every Dress a Decision at the Blue Begonia Press website.
Every Dress a Decision makes its debut this Friday at the Oak Hollow Gallery in Yakima, Wash. (7pm; 5631 Summitview Ave.) Of course, I'd love to see you there, or at one of these readings:
April 28, 7pm at Cheap Wine and Poetry with Paul Nelson, Roberto Ascalon and Katie Ogle
April 29, 7pm at Village Books in Bellingham
May 4, 7pm. First Wednesday Reading sponsored by the Oregon Literary Review at Blackbird Wine Shop, Portland, OR
May 6, 7:30pm at Open Books (the official West of the Cascades launch reading)
May 21, 11am at Burning Word in Leavenworth (with fellow Blue Begonia poets Terry Martin, Jim Bodeen and Dan Peters)
May 21, 7pm at Elliott Bay Books
May 23, Poetry Night in Bellingham
June 1, at C&P Coffee in West Seattle, with Novelist Harold Taw
June 21, 7pm at Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe in Boulder, Colorado.
Yippee!Every Dress a Decision has arrived! You can order signed copies at Blue Begonia Press — we'll get it to you mid-month or so. Or, come to one of these readings so we can say hello to each other.
April 22, 7pm at Oak Hollow Gallery, 5631 Summitview Ave., Yakima, Wash. (the official East of the Cascades launch)
April 28, 7pm at Cheap Wine and Poetry with Paul Nelson, Roberto Ascalon and Katie Ogle
April 29, 7pm at Village Books in Bellingham
May 4, 7pm. First Wednesday Reading sponsored by the Oregon Literary Review at Blackbird Wine Shop, Portland, OR
May 6, 7:30pm at Open Books (the official West of the Cascades launch reading)
May 21, 11am at Burning Word in Leavenworth (with fellow Blue Begonia poets Terry Martin, Jim Bodeen and Dan Peters)
May 21, 7pm at Elliott Bay Books
May 23, Poetry Night in Bellingham
June 1, at C&P Coffee in West Seattle, with Novelist Harold Taw
June 21, 7pm at Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe in Boulder, Colorado.
My publisher, Blue Begonia Press, created this lovely book trailer, featuring music by Sigur Ros.
According to Flickr, which is where I found this marvelous photograph, the woman in midflight is Peggy Bacon, "one of a troupe of girls who did pyramid stands on the beach." She was photographed Feb. 6, 1937 by Ted Hood on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.
Every Dress a Decision is due out from Blue Begonia Press in April. Info about upcoming readings.
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