Gordon Osing will be at Burke’s on Friday, March 3, from 5:00 to 6:30 PM to read from and sign copies of his latest work Things That Never Happened: Fictions of Family Eros (Spuytenduyvil, $14.00 softcover). The reading will begin at 6 PM.
"Each of the little ones in the house must find his and her way out, must face the ordeals of trying to love, must find and enact a self who is not blindsided by the simplest blandishments of assimilation in town"
"Gordon Osing's new book is brilliant, soul-deep, questing, and fun. One thinks of Wordsworth's Prelude done with a great jazz beat, and then one thinks of all the good books wrung from a writer's experience, from a life. The book has the force of a train rumbling through a vibrant city. Its observations are startling and pleasurable even as they disturb. Read it and see."
Gordon Osing has taught at the University of Memphis
since 1973. He founded there The River City Writers
Series, now in its twenty-second year. He is the author
of From the Boundary Waters and A Town Down-River.
He has also translated widely from the Chinese. His
travels to China inform his other verse and journal
collection, The Water Radical. “The Center is everywhere
attention gathers,” he has said of his work in verse, prose,
and translation.