Larissa Lai, Hiromi Goto and David Bateman at Vancouver's Rhizome Cafe
Wait Until Late Afternoon and Automaton Biographies Launch November 7
10.19.2009 – Frontenac House Publishers and Arsenal Pulp Press present the launches of Wait Until Late Afternoon, a collaborative long poem also known as distilled, decanted and debauched by Hiromi Goto and David Bateman and Automaton Biographies, the first full-length poetry collection by Larissa Lai.
Saturday, November 7, 7:00 pm
Rhizome Cafe
317 E Broadway
Vancouver, BC
(604) 872-3166
ABOUT WAIT UNTIL LATE AFTERNOON
Also called distilled, decanted and debauched
David Bateman and Hiromi Goto's collaborative poem, Wait Until Late Afternoon, is a nostalgic/anti-nostalgic creative autobiographical conversation. Tracing their relationship to their fathers, their lives, and to each other through the transfiguring effects of alcohol, the narrative travels from glamorous nightclubs and the Jade Market in Taipei to Peterborough, Ontario and Nanton, Alberta. Through memory, mourning, geographies and sexualities, this poetic narrative is at once a memento mori and meditations upon wabi sabi.
DAVID BATEMAN is a spoken word poet and performance artist presently based in Toronto. His most recent performances, A Brief History of White Virgins or The Night Freddy Kissed Me, and What’s It Like? were presented in Vancouver, Peterborough, Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto during the winter of 2009. He has presented his work across the country over the past twenty years and also teaches drama, literature, and creative writing at a variety of Canadian post-secondary institutions. His performance work has been published by Blizzard Press, Ordinary Press, and finewords chapbooks.
HIROMI GOTO is the award-winning author of Chorus of Mushrooms, and The Kappa Child. She has also written a children’s novel, The Water of Possibility, and a collection of short stories, Hopeful Monsters. Her most recent publication is a young adult novel, Half World, published by Penguin Canada. She and David Bateman collaborated on and showcased a performance piece entitled The Cowboy and the Geisha
ABOUT AUTOMATON BIOGRAPHIES
By Larissa Lai
Automaton Biographies is the first full-length solo poetry book by novelist Larissa Lai (When Fox is a Thousand, Salt Fish Girl).
With an ear to the white noise of advertising, pop music, CNN, biotechnology, the Norton Anthology of English Literature, cereal packaging, and MuchMusic, Lai explores the problem of what it means to exist on the boundaries of the human.
Ambitious, eloquent, and deeply personal, these poems taken as a whole are a personal and cultural history that jostles us out of our humanness and into our relations to animal, machine, language, and one another.
LARISSA LAI was born in La Jolla, California, grew up in St. John's, Newfoundland, and currently lives in Vancouver, B.C., where she is an Assistant Professor in Canadian Literature at the University of British Columbia. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Calgary and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She was awarded an Astraea Foundation Emerging Writers Award in 1995. Her novel When Fox is a Thousand was first published by Press Gang Publishers in 1995; a new edition, featuring an afterword by the author, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2004. She is also the author of Salt Fish Girl (Thomas Allen Publishers, 2002), as well as a book-length collaborative long poem with Rita Wong called sybil unrest published by Line Books in the spring of 2009.
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