An Evening with Albert Mobilio
Pleas join us for a reading with Albert Mobilio as they sit down with Jennifer Firestone to discuss their new book of poems, Beginning of the Hollow. About Beginning of the Hollow:"I’m sorry. It’s impossible to characterize Beginning of the Hollow. In the early pages, Albert Mobilio lavishes on us the spellbinding
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pacing of acrobatic, recursive sentences—aka his 'narrative difficulty'—which, though they include riveting observational details, 'strange turns' of syntax, understated humor, and a pentathlon of competing dictions—feel somehow like CAT scans of the soul. Then there are softly spoken introspective poems and, toward the end, a long sequence of short gnomic declarations and fragments so strikingly various in tone, so linguistically alive and entertaining, they might be renga composed by some hard-boiled detective and a lovelorn Buddhist philosopher. Charged with vivacity, totally 'unbuttoned,' psychologically alarming, and fashioned with a dexterity few poets can match, Mobilio’s Beginning of the Hollow comes fully loaded. And here you’ll find even 'better words than the words/ that make people do things.'"—Forrest Gander