Due to grim weather conditions, the book launch for Moyna Pam Dick’s I am writing you from afar has been canceled. Details on a make-up event will be shared soon.
Please join Black Sun Lit for an outdoor gathering to celebrate the release of I am writing you from afar by Moyna Pam Dick, with readings by the author, Eugene Lim & Marcella Durand.
Saturday, October 30, 2021
Unnameable Books
600 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn
2-4 PM
Moyna Pam Dick (aka Lou/Moina/Gregoire Pam Dick et al.) is the author of Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart (OPR, 2019), this is the fugitive (Essay Press, 2016), Metaphysical Licks (Book*hug, 2014), and Delinquent (Futurepoem, 2009). Her novel graphic I am writing you from afar (BSL, 2021) belongs, with Edges, to the in-progress Evasions Trilogy. Also a visual artist and philosopher, Dick lives in New York City, where she explores transient structures (veridical, temporal, sonic, spatial), obsessive or improvised formalisms, haunted intertexts, cluster semantics, and the vulnerable, moody, tender urban sublime. Her slyly unruly, tone-shifting notations span the genre-/gender-spectral.
Eugene Lim is the author of the novels Search History (Coffee House Press, 2021), The Strangers (Black Square Editions, 2013), and Fog & Car (Ellipsis Press, 2008). His writings have appeared in The New Yorker, The Believer, The Baffler, Granta, Dazed, Fence, Little Star, Denver Quarterly, The Brooklyn Rail, Jacket2, Gigantic, Your Impossible Voice, The Coming Envelope, Everyday Genius, Vestiges, and elsewhere. Pessimist of the intellect by night; by day, he’s house librarian at the Charles Xavier School for the Greatly Responsibled. He runs Ellipsis Press and lives in Jackson Heights, NY, with Joanna and Felix.
Marcella Durand is the author of To husband is to tender (Black Square Editions, 2021), The Prospect (Delete Press, 2020), Area (Belladonna*, 2008), and Traffic & Weather (Futurepoem, 2008). She is the 2021 recipient of the C.D. Wright Award in Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art. Earth’s Horizons, her translation of Michèle Métail’s book-length poem Les Horizons du sol, was published by Black Square Editions in 2020.
Attendance requirements: proof of vaccination, masks required indoors, and socially distanced seating. Due to reduced capacity, RSVP is suggested and may be directed to editor [at] blacksunlit [dot] com.
Books by the readers will be for sale and light refreshments provided. Please note that event details are subject to change due to weather and/or any developments in Covid safety protocols.