Join Us October 30 at Our Launch Party for The Devil Says Maybe You Like It
THIS FALL’S Propeller Books title is The Devil Says Maybe I Like It by Wendy Bourgeois. While the book’s official release date is November 13th, we’ve decided to take advantage of the devilish season and have a launch party Tuesday, October 30th at Boys Fort, our favorite store in downtown Portland. Bourgeois will read from her book, and will be joined by fellow poet and writer Daneen Bergland, author of the book’s foreword, who will read some of her own work. If you like poetry, essays, books, smart women authors, cool stores, or being around people, you should definitely join us. The particulars:
WHO: Wendy Bourgeois, her new book, and her pal Daneen Bergland
WHAT: Reading and party for The Devil Says Maybe I Like It
WHEN: 6pm Tuesday, October 30th
WHERE: Boys Fort, 1001 SW Morrison St, Portland
From the foreword by Daneen Bergland:
“These essays are dishy, spoken in the voice of a confidant, as Bourgeois tucks each poet’s line inside a closet of her own stories, secrets, and desires. What’s astonishing is the way she can unpack an idea, a feeling, an experience, or an especially dense or opaque line of poetry so deftly and completely, as if picking apart a hopeless knot in an impossibly delicate chain. Once untangled, a truth sparkles under the beam of her bright intelligence. Though the pieces reckon with literature and theory across time, the ageless themes are housed firmly in their modern context: Power, Death, Religion, Marriage, Beauty, Femininity, Motherhood, Love, God. If poetry is a distillation, these essays offer a concentrated drop of truth reconstituted in a personal and cultural moment.”
Wendy Bourgeois is a poet and writer. In addition to the essays she writes for her regular column in Propeller, her poems have appeared in Cirque, Portland Review, and other small press journals. She is a writing instructor at Portland Community College and Portland State University. “The Devil Says Maybe I Like It” is her first book.
