Poetry Afternoons at the Clark presents:
"Young Light, Extinguished Light"
(at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library)
—Alvaro Cardona-Hine
Arranged by Estelle Gershgoren Novak

Saturday,
February 25
3:00 p.m

with the grown-ups gone
he's almost sure
nothing's going to happen
then he sees
that the light
pouring between the slats
of the blind
is going to make
a tremendous zebra
out of him

From: With the Grown-Ups Gone

Alvaro Cardona-Hine will explore issues of life and death, adulthood and childhood as he reads selections from his published works. This will include readings from: A History of Light, prose poems he composed while snowbound in a small town in Minnesota; a short incantatory essay on the forbidden which recounts his experiences as a child and how the adult world kept him uninformed about his own nature; and With the Grown-Ups Gone, short, succinct poems grounded in the magical reality of the child. In honor of his friend of 40 years, Hank Feldrais who recently ended his own life, Cardona-Hine accompanies his poem of profound loss and sorrow with his evocative musical composition, "Elegy for Hank Feldrais." Books and posters of two of his paintings will be available to the public.

Biography:
Alvaro Cardona-Hine was born in Costa Rica in 1926 and came to Los Angeles with his family in 1939. A poet, painter, and composer, he has published nineteen books of poetry, prose, and translation in both Spanish and in English. He is the recipient of a Bush Foundation Fellowship, National Endowment of the Arts award, and a Minnesota State Arts Board grant. He and his wife, painter Barbara McCauley, currently live and work in the mountain village of Truchas, New Mexico where they run their own art gallery. His music has been performed in Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C., Minneapolis, and Santa Fe.

Registration Form

Reservation submission deadline: February 17, 2012
Admission: $5 per person.

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The series Poetry Afternoons at the Clark is sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.