Heritage Book Group + Author Visit — with Silvina López Medin
- Tuesday, October 15: 5 — 7 p.m.
- In person in the Hover room + online
- Watch the recoding here: https://bit.ly/4dNf7G4
Poet, editor and translator Silvina López Medin will visit the group via Zoom to talk about her book Poem that Never Ends. Join in person at the library or via Zoom. Adult event.
About the book: Poem That Never Ends is a hybrid work that centers three mothers: López Medin, her mother, and her maternal grandmother. López Medin probes matrilineal inheritances, from the congenital hearing impairment shared by her mother and grandmother, to the emotional and psychological wounds, to the silences. A lexicon of sewing stitches the book together, as both the mother and grandmother worked as seamstresses. López Medin conjures her predecessors through their daily labor and mines the psychological nuances of the language of the trade: “Needles, pins. Sharp points. Can slip from the hands of a seamstress anytime. Can stick in your skin before a red dot expands.” — Harvard Review “López Medin’s commitment to recovering remnants of the past results in a moving suite of prose poems and lineated poems, along with photos and drawings — all intricately tracing her own matrilineage, domestic work, and disability. In López Medin’s investigation of her family history, she navigates events that exist only as fragmentary moments. López Medin was born in Argentina, and this is her first full-length book of poetry written in English. Her mother, who was born in Paraguay, moved to Buenos Aires when she was 19. Coinciding with López Medin’s poetic attention to the materials and activity of sewing, there is the condition of her mother and grandmother who are both hearing impaired and “only hear 30% of what is said.” For López Medin, assembling and sewing together scraps mirrors the efforts of comprehending bits and pieces of language.” — LA Review of Books
Learn more: lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-stitched-version-on-silvina-lopez-medins-poem-that-never-ends Book Club Copies For this and all Book Clubs: Stop by or call the library to see if we have available one of the copies we have reserved for those who would like to join our Book Club discussion. You can also request a hold via search.midhudsonlibraries.org.
Presenting: The Germantown Library Heritage Collection Thanks to the generous Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion grant from the MHLS (Mid-Hudson Library System), the Germantown Library is pleased to showcase a new collection of books in Spanish, Portuguese, and Spanish-English, Portuguese-English bilingual books for adults and children. These books are available at our own library and can be delivered to any MHLS member library via search.midhudsonlibraries.org. The Heritage Collection goes hand in hand with TGL’s Heritage Month Book Club + programming and follows the American Library Association Heritage Months. We hope to see you at some—or all!—of our events to celebrate Latinx Month: September 15 — October 15. Please contact us if you would like to volunteer in any of these events or join our Heritage Committee: communication@germantownlibrary.org
Heritage Celebration / Fiesta / Festa
Saturday October 19: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
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