{"id":8109,"global_id":"inprinthouston.org?id=8109","global_id_lineage":["inprinthouston.org?id=8109"],"author":"21","status":"publish","date":"2016-08-17 11:26:27","date_utc":"2016-08-17 16:26:27","modified":"2016-08-26 10:56:47","modified_utc":"2016-08-26 15:56:47","url":"https:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/event\/brazos-bookstoreinprint-jennifer-grotz-reading\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/8109","title":"Brazos Bookstore\/Inprint Jennifer Grotz Reading","description":"<blockquote><p><strong><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8113\" src=\"http:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BB-Logo-2-color-RGB.jpg\" alt=\"BB Logo 2-color RGB\" width=\"188\" height=\"75\" \/>Free<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-8111\" src=\"http:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/small-Window-Left-Open-300x386.jpg\" alt=\"small Window Left Open\" width=\"188\" height=\"242\" \/>Jennifer Grotz, a recipient of an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellowship, received her PhD from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. She is the author of the award-winning poetry collections\u00a0<em>The Needle<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Cusp<\/em>. Her poetry has appeared in <em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>New Republic<\/em>, <em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>New Yorker<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Best American Poetry<\/em>. She teaches at the University of Rochester.<\/p>\n<p>Her new collection, <em>Window Left Open<\/em>, was published by Graywolf Press earlier this year. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brazosbookstore.com\/event\/jennifer-grotz-window-left-open\">Pre-order your copy of <em>Window Left Open<\/em> for pickup at Brazos Bookstore.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In these lush, intricately crafted poems, Grotz explores how we can become strange to ourselves through escape, isolation, desire\u2014and by leaving the window open. These poems are full of the sensory pleasures of the natural world and a slowed-down concept of time, as Grotz records the wonders of travel, a sojourn at a French monastery, and the translation of thoughts into words, words into another language, language into this remarkable poetry. <em>Window Left Open<\/em> is a beautiful and resounding book, one that traces simultaneously the intimacy and the vastness of the world. Adam Zagajewski says, \u201cJennifer Grotz has successfully reinvented poetry for herself\u2014and for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ta-Nehisi Coates writes, \u201cWhen I first read Jennifer Grotz\u2019s \u2018Poppies,\u2019 all I could tell you was that I liked its sound&#8230;. It was elemental, and I think almost every poem I love is like that for me&#8230;. But then I went back and I saw the philosophy at work. Grotz writes of our constant desire to tame the world, and even the righteousness of that desire&#8230;. 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