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Free Thursdays FREE VERSE RIKKI DUCORNET AND ROSAMOND PURCELL THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2000 7:30 PM FREE AUDITORIUM |
Join us for a magical evening inside the wunderkammer with writer-artist Rikki Ducornet and photographer-author Rosamond Purcell. Ducornet's highly imaginative fiction has been compared to the work of
Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino, and the Chicago Tribune says
she writes "like a time-stunned traveler, testifying in breathless fragments
to exotic ages that have gone or never were." The author of more than
a dozen titles, her book of essays The Monstrous and the Marvelous
examines cabinets of wonder from the Renaissance to modern times. Purcell's
photographs can be found in major museums and collections throughout the
world and have appeared in publications from Smithsonian to the
New York Times. Her book, Special Cases: Natural Anomalies and
Historical Monsters, is based on the eponymous exhibition curated
for the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and is itself "a collection of monstrous
collections." Cosponsored by Rain Taxi Review of Books. Free Verse
is the Walker's new Free Thursdays series for poets and writers.
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