Friday, September 29, 2023 at 6 PM
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego: La Jolla
All Ages
$15 to $20
Join us on Friday, September 29 to have fun the discharge of “The Snakes Came Back” by Lora Mathis. There will even be a stay poetry efficiency by Lora Mathis and Matty Terrones in Jacobs Hall and a Book Pop-Up Shop in Berglund Lobby. Refreshments shall be available for buy from The Kitchen.
“The Snakes Came Back” is Lora Mathis’ third assortment of poems, printed by Metatron Press in Montréal, Quebec.
Lora Mathis’s “The Snakes Came Back” invokes mythology, desires, and the pure world as realms of solace and wells of data within the therapeutic of trauma. In Lora Mathis’s poems, the physique is a short lived resting place for the infinite, resilient soul. “The Snakes Came Back” follows a speaker contending with trauma within the slipstream of earthly time. Mathis’s poems are peopled with mates and lovers—each named and nameless, present and previous—and invested in needed interdependence as a way of therapeutic the self. “The Snakes Came Back” cracks open on a regular basis duties and acquainted landscapes to disclose their haunting depths. Saturated with warmth and wind, Mathis’s poems vibrate with the need to face life’s temporality, its unattainable contradictions, its magnificence and its ache: “There is loss, but there is renewal too.”
About the Author|
Lora Mathis (she/they) is a poet and artist who grew up between Southern California and Montréal. She is excited by creating immersive worlds by means of poetry, video, and efficiency. She has been sharing her artwork and poetry on-line for the final twelve years, and has utilized digital instruments, resembling video, graphic design, and pictures, as part of her apply. In the final two years, her apply has expanded into printmaking and sculpture. They have printed two collections of poetry together with, “The Women Widowed to Themselves” (2015; republished 2020). The experimental essay “Here I Am In It” was printed by Burn All Books in 2022. Mathis performs poetry on their very own, and with their sound collaborator and longtime buddy, Matty Terrones. With Terrones, they put out the poetry and music album Sediment by way of Hello America Lit. Mathis is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley and at present lives in Oakland.
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