Sunday, October 20, 2:00pm: Julia Vinograd Book Release Party! Himalayan Flavors, 1585 University Ave, Berkeley, CA. October 14, 2019 – Posted in: Events

Zeitgeist Press is very excited to present two new Julia Vinograd books celebrating the life and work of this remarkable woman who energized and shaped the poetry of the SF Bay Area for over fifty years. This FREE, festive afternoon of celebration begins at 2pm on October 20th at Himalayan Flavors, 1585 University Ave. in Berkeley, California (RSVP on Facebook here). Books will be for sale at a one-time discount (less than half the retail price)!

Publisher Bruce Isaacson has put together A Symphony for Broken Instruments, a seminal collection of selected works along with a lengthy section of previously unpublished poems. Never before has such a tour de force of Vinograd’s work been together in one volume, which is 384 pages in total, including art by Deborah Vinograd and Chris Trian. At the same event, editor Deborah Fruchey presents Our Lady of Telegraph Avenue, the new tribute anthology of poems to, for, and about Julia Vinograd by a slew of friends and local writers.

Bruce Isaacson will be presenting A Symphony for Broken Instruments: Selected and New Works by Julia Vinograd and Deborah Fruchey presenting the Julia Vinograd tribute anthology Our Lady of Telegraph Avenue with readings from both volumes.

ABOUT JULIA VINOGRAD

Julia Vinograd, the popular poet identified with the streets of Berkeley, California, published 70 books during her life (1943-2018). She was raised in Pasadena and Berkeley, where her mother was a poet and English Professor. Her father was announced to win a Nobel Prize in Biochemistry but passed away before the award. Julia earned a B.A. at U.C. Berkeley and an M.F.A. at the famed Iowa Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa. She won an American Book award from the Before Columbus Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, and a “Lifetime Achievement Award as Berkeley’s unofficial Poet Laureate.” She was also famed as the Bubble Lady for her love of blowing soap bubbles for children on Telegraph Avenue. This book represents a life’s work of Street Poems that are accessible, charming, and deeply human.