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Fundraiser
for Alabanza film.
April 24, 2006 at 7 PM. Jonathan
Shorr Gallery, 109 Crosby St. (off Prince St.) in
SOHO, NYC.
Featuring
Yusef Komunyakaa, Edward Hirsch & Cecilia Vicuna.
With special screening of an early cut of the film.
$20 entrance fee, but will get $15 worth of books.
Please
RSVP at info@rattapallax.com
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Hirsch is the author of six books of poems including
Wild Gratitude, which received the National Book
Critics Circle Award; and For the Sleepwalkers,
which received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from The
Academy of American Poets and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial
Award. Hirsch is currently the president of the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Yusef Komunyakaa
is the author of Neon Vernacular: New & Selected Poems
1977-1989, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize
and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and other collections.
His honors include the William Faulkner Prize from the
Universite de Rennes and the Bronze Star for his service
in Vietnam. Cecilia Vicuña recently exhibited her
work at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Belgium, at the Castello
di Rivoli in Italy, and in the 1997 Whitney Biennial.
Her book, Instan appeared from Berkeley’s Kelsey
St. Press, and she is currently co-editing the anthology
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Alabanza
is the story of a poet's attempt to speak for the silenced
and the missing, made in heartfelt praise of Pablo Neruda
and the victims of two September 11ths.
Rattapallax,
Inc. is a not-for-profit organization. By contributing
to the post-production costs in completing the film,
your contribution will be tax-deductible. Contribute
and get special gifts like Pablo Neruda Arpilleria
and wool/cloth card hand made by the families of
the missing in Chile (Fundacion Solidaridad) and
signed copies of Martín Espada's Alabanza: New and
Selected Poems; and credit in the film. [
Learn more ]
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You
can either make a check or money order payable to: Rattapallax
Rattapallax
532 La Guardia Place, Suite 353
New York, NY 10012 USA
Or
you can also make a donation by credit card at www.justgive.org
or use Network
for Good.
If you have any questions, please email Ram Devineni
info@rattapallax.com
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Co-sponsor:
Pampero Rum
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