Jennifer Militello presents “Identifying the Pathogen“
Thursday, February 5 at 6:30 p.m.: NH Poet Laureate Jennifer Militello joins us to present her new book, “Identifying the Pathogen: An Inquiry.”
Composed as a lab notebook recording various surgeries, autopsies, and experiments, “Identifying the Pathogen” tells the story of a scientist on an obsessive quest to document an ailment that resists classification. The book considers the body in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and is woven through with the story of Anna Morandi Manzolini — an eighteenth-century Italian anatomist and artist who struggled to support a husband suffering from depression — as well as several accounts detailing a ruptured appendix, a splintered cello, and an ill-fated rock climbing excursion.
About the author: Jennifer Militello is the poet laureate of New Hampshire. She is the author of the hybrid collection “Identifying the Pathogen,” named a finalist for the 2024 FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize, “The Pact” (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books, 2021), and the memoir “Knock Wood,” winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize (Dzanc Books, 2019), as well as four previous books of poetry. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry, Poetry London, and The Poetry Review (UK). Militello has taught at Brown University, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently teaches in the MFA program at New England College.
Ellwyn Hayslip IV – “The Metal Storm” (Yther Chronicles #5)
Friday, February 13th at 6:30 pm: Ellwyn Hayslip IV returns to Gibson’s Bookstore with Book 5 of The Yther Chronicles: “The Metal Storm”
About the book: It’s a battle of fantasy versus science fiction, as a new enemy threatens the dimension of living dreams! An army of metal insects invades the peaceful realm of Yther, and strange weapons take control of the dimension’s weather and cause it to go wild! Again, the three heroes from the mythic realm of Earth are summoned to aid the Ytherians in their battle against this evil.
The mastermind behind the strange phenomena is an eerie man who claims to know Yther’s King. This man and his forces are driven by one thing: hate. They hate humans, magic, and especially dreams. Once again, Abby and her friends are the only ones who can prevent these villains from transforming Yther into something totally unrecognizable.
Their quest will be long and filled with trials and sacrifices but they have some new, surprising friends with them this time…