READINGS AND BOOK SIGNINGS
“Writers, readers, teachers, and creative writing classes, take
note: Cecile Pineda is an American original, a literary treasure.... Her
prodigiously inventive and important work ... deserves a place in the forefront
of American Literature.
—Jeff
Biggers in Bloomsbury Review
“Cecile Pineda has the nerve to ask the one simple question that
eludes our public posturing: What is it, at the root of our culture, that sets
us against the rest of creation.”
—Joanna Macy, author of Coming Back to Life
I’ll
be launching my new book, Three Tides: Writingat the Edge of Being starting this month, with
more appearances scheduled in October and November as follows:
Saturday,
Sept 24, 2 - 3:30 PM Berkeley Public Library
2090
Kittredge Street
Saturday, Oct 8, 3 - 4:15
PM San Rafael Litquake
Downtown Fourth St.
Three Tides,
Writing at the Edge of Being (my
ninth) was born a twin in disguise. It addresses displacement, personal, environmental,
and cultural (one of the sweeping themes of the anthropocene) to talk about the
writing process, geared to folks who like to read, who want to write right now,
or some time in the future.
In many ways we are
displaced, from our homes, from our streets, from our jobs, from our right to
health care and education, from our bombed out countries, from our wombs with
the neocon antiabortion agenda; from our bodies by militarized police, from our
DNA by the use of plutonium tipped (DU) weapons, from our landscape through
arctic melt, and fire, drought and deluge and fracking, and from our truth by
media, by surveillance and by incarceration in the prison/labor complex.
In Three Tides, Writing at the
Edge of Being a theater work, oral histories, and personal memoir tell the
story of humanity at the edge, dispossessed of its culture (Japan); and of its
environment (Katrina).
You’re invited to be part of
the Three Tides discussion at the
book launch September 24 at the Berkeley Public Library. Come! Enjoy! Ask questions! Meet new friends!
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