We are excited to have Romana Iorga in the bookshop on Thursday, June 19th, reading from her new book of poetry, Temporary Skin. If you’ve read or heard any of her poems before, you’ll know that she is a wizard with words, and I can’t wait to hear her read from this new collection! In Romana Iorga’s Temporary Skin, the wound pulses, the grave beckons, the weather changes. The past is ever near, and the past is irretrievable. Folkloric, witty, and understated by turns, these poems shimmer with inventive metaphors, reversals, and self-skepticism, all of which remind us of the fundamental strangeness of existence, a strangeness we lose touch with amid the blur of the mundane. But more than that, Temporary Skin builds into a delightful exploration of the act of making itself and a meditation on language as method for restoring the fragments of our selves and our lives. “I am waiting to be returned to myself / in one piece,” Iorga writes—something we all long for, and something this collection gives us, poemby poem by poem. —Molly Spencer, Author of If the House, Hinge, and Invitatory Doors will open at 18h30 for the event, with the reading to start at 19h, with light refreshments provided. Please sign up here.
