Robin Walter -- "Little Mercy," with Ramona Ausubel
Category: Literary
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Tuesday, Apr 29, 2025 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Location
Boulder Bookstore
1107 Pearl St
Details
Robin Walter will speak about and sign her new book, "Little Mercy," on Tuesday, April 29th at 6:30pm, at Boulder Bookstore. She will be in conversation with Ramona Ausubel for this special event. Tickets for this event are $5 (plus a small processing fee) and are available on Eventbrite.
About the Book:
In award-winning poet Robin Walter’s debut collection, "Little Mercy," writing and looking—seeing feelingly—become a practice in radical care. These poems pursue moments of shared recognition, when looking up to see a deer across a stream, or when sunlight passes through wingtip onto palm, the self found in other, the river in vein of wrist.
Attuned to the transparent beauty in the natural world, Walter’s poems are often glancing observations unspooling down the page, their delicacies belying their powers of profound knowing. The formal logic of this work is the intricate architecture of a nest. Each line becomes a blade of grass, each dash a little twig, each parenthesis a small feather—all woven together deliberately, seemingly fragile but held fast with surprising strength. In their lyric variations, repetitions, and fragments, employed toward a deep attention to wren, river, and reflection, the human almost falls away entirely, a steady and steadying state of being that is unconscious, expansive.
Written out of a broken landscape in a broken time, "Little Mercy" is a book of gratitude, one that draws our inner selves to the present and living world, to the ways we can break and mend.
IMPORTANT TICKETING AND EVENT INFORMATION
*Tickets are $5 (plus a small processing fee).
*A coupon good for $5 off a copy of "Little Mercy," or a purchase on the day of the event is included with your ticket. You will receive this coupon at the event.
