Outside Event 1

Thursday I attended Danielle Sellers' reading of her book Bone Key Elegies. This book is a relatively small collection of poems. She began to read. She was a little timid, but she was really nice. She started with one about Christmas. She explained the entire scene in the Keys. You could really envision what she was explaining. She described smells so well that you could just about smell it in the air. Everyone listened. I closed my eyes and could see what she described, and then it was over. She went on to another one. It was about her dad cooking. Again she described the scene so well. She described her dad, who seemed rather unclean, but his cooking seemed like it filled the whole house with delightful smells. She described his silver hair. A man laughs and nods his head. Everyone is enjoying her stories. Then the poem ended. She read through a few more poems. She read one entitled "Manhattan Bodega" for Wendy. At the end, she talked about being "ready to jump." This was a little bit of a shocker. Outside you hear the rain. You can see a few people walking by. Everyone is content with her readings. She goes on to read some of her new poems. She says they are "love poems, well actually anti-love poems." Everyone laughs. We all understand that. She starts with one called "Outburst." She reads and describes the scenes. She says a line "numbers beyond what you can dial." That seems like it would be a long number. =p. When she finishes, she gives credit to the Beastie Boys and their song "Intergalactic" from which the line came from. Wendy likes that. She reads a couple more poems and then she is done. I really liked to listen to her poems. You could really see what she was describing. She made it where you could taste the salt in the air, or smell the food being cooked. You could feel the heat. It is an awesome thing to be able to write like this. It was nice to listen to her stories, but I didn't like how as soon as I would really get into the story and want to know more, it would be over. It was kind of a downer, because she would just describe one scene and then go on to another poem. Other than that, they were really good. Everyone loved the poems, and I would go listen to her again. =]