About This Event
Join award winning authors & educators, Alexander Shalom Joseph and Andrew Schelling, as they celebrate Alexander’s latest poetry collection from Middle Creek Publishing, Buffalo Elegies. The cover image of Buffalo Elegies shows a bracketed blank space [___] projected over an obscured image of the plains. Within the book itself, [___] was substituted for “Buffalo” each time the word appeared in a poem. This was done because this hard cover, special edition collection is a series of 23 elegies about the eradication of the Buffalo from the American West, the massacre which took the population of the great herd from 60 million to a mere 23. [___] exemplifies the space left in their absence, the impossibility of speaking to this animal without naming its loss, and the emptiness of the West without their feral thunder.In a show of continued support for the twenty three who survived, $1 from the sale of this book, will go to the Buffalo Field Campaign, a non-profit dedicated to caretaking the descends of the last wild herd. More About the Book:In Buffalo Elegies, Alexander Shalom Joseph confronts one of North America's greatest ecological tragedies through a series of powerful, deeply hu