Joint book launch of Kendra Sullivan’s <em>Reps</em> and Alan Felsenthal’s <em>Hereafter</em>
Tue, Oct 22, 2024
7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Free and open to all.
Please join our friends The Song Cave and Ugly Duckling Presse on Tuesday, October 22 at 7pm for a double book launch of Lost & Found publisher Kendra Sullivan‘s new book Reps and Alan Felsenthal‘s new book Hereafter! Join us at the Old American Can Factory (232 3rd Street, Brooklyn) in Gowanus on the ground floor flex space. There will be desserts. All are welcome.
Kendra Sullivan’s Reps
“Reps is a bracing and riveting examination of our ecological crisis and each of our attempts to tread the treacherous waters of racial capitalism. Every word in the book is prismatic, distilling and casting an entire spectrum of repetitions and representations, and then questioning the literal and figurative technologies and logics necessary to reproduce each utterance. Along the way, Sullivan casts a reflexive, but never navel-gazing, eye on everything from linear depression to linear regression, from naval fleets to navel attachments to naval fictions. “Are stories in some way complicit in the creation of authority?” Sullivan asks. At stake is nothing less than the reproduction of human and more-than-human species and the sustainability of our planet. Her investigations are urgent and precise, for “while fertility has a sell-by date, reproductive labor is shelf stable. Time is not endless.” Sullivan implicates each of us– the sanitary engineer who “designs public waste removal mazes… and other obfuscations,” the mapmaker, and the reader. “Celestial maps are meant to be held overhead when consulted. If you think you can look down at the stars you’ve got another thing coming.” It is in this mode of care, with attention to standpoints, positionalities, and epistemologies, that Sullivan imagines anew. As she writes, “to splice the present to the past via deletion of certain narrative strands is to predicate different futures.”
–Celina Su
Alan Felsenthal’s Hereafter
Alan Felsenthal’s tender second collection of poems, Hereafter, moves between the difficult work of mourning and the spirited nature of life. Both an elegy for a dear friend and a search for signs of renewal, these poems recover pastoral symbols of sorrow from cliché. Essential in their attempt at consolation, Felsenthal’s requiems traverse landscapes—the ocean, the Earth, and the moon—using both humor and pathos to awaken the depths of feeling that follow loss.
About the Authors
Alan Felsenthal
Kendra Sullivan
Co-Director of NYC Climate Justice Hub
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