DAN BOEHL - Kings of the F**cking Sea & AMELIA GRAY - Museum of the Weird

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Adult Event

Start: 06/24/2011 7:00 pm

Poet DAN BOEHL and fiction writer AMELIA GRAY will speak about and sign their works, Boehl's collection of poetry Kings of the F**cking Sea and Gray's short story collection, Museum of the Weird.

Two fantastic local authors bring their unique work to BookPeople tonight. Dan Boehl’s poetry collection, Kings of the F**king Sea, unfolds to reveal a world that of artists, poets, merchants, sailors, and soldiers who break themselves against the sea and the vast unknowable opportunity it represents. As one poem goes, “The world invents, the sea discloses, and irony isn’t a necessary tool for successful men. On the sea, as in art, some make it and others die nameless, destitute of love, forgotten.”

Amelia Gray’s Museum of the Weird is the winner of FC2’s American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize. A monogrammed cube appears in your town. Your landlord cheats you out of first place in the annual Christmas decorating contest. These situations and more reveal the wondrous play and surreal humor that make up the stories in her stunning story collection.

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