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Boulder poet and Naropa faculty member Anne Waldman has completed an epic project 25 years in the making. Its title, The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment, signifies many things, but Iovis in particular was taken from a line in Virgil’s epic poem, “The Aeneid.” “That was part of the incentive: to take on what has traditionally been a male form — takes on war and tales of your tribe and so on,” Waldman says. “The title started with that, and challenging that, looking at that, creating a sort of fabric around that — working with my own texts and documentation, a sense of narrative and dreams interrupted.
“My son is in there, a lot of his conversations and queries. It’s an investigative query,” she continues. “It’s a vast fabric, and within that are all these strands — autobiographical stuff, dreams, letters my grandfather wrote my grandmother. It’s woven with a lot of other voices. I like to use the word ‘montage,’ which suggests this cinematic quality of quick shifts and overlays, different kinds of texts and genres that create this weave or fabric of this bigger picture.”
Waldman will be reading from and signing The Iovis Trilogy tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl Street in Boulder (call 303-447-2074 or log on to www.boulderbookstore.com); she’ll do another reading and signing at the Tattered Cover, 2526 East Colfax Avenue (303-322-7727, www.tatteredcover.com), on July 18.
Tue., July 12, 7:30 p.m., 2011
