Gloria Frym, whose previous collection, Homeless at Home, won an American Book Award, has just published Solution Simulacra, and will be reading in the Poetry Flash series at Black Oak Books (1491 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley) on Sunday, September 24 at 7:30PM. Joining her will be Beat poet and jazz guitarist David Meltzer. Read Gloria’s piece about Meltzer’s music here. Also, I had the pleasure of publishing one of Frym’s short-short stories on Fiction Attic some four years ago, in the second issue of the magazine. Read it here.


About the book: “This poet’s brilliant solution in SOLUTION SIMULACRA is to invent a parallel and much more exciting ethos to the prevailing ill winds of a culture gone awry with war and little tolerance for dissent. Poetry, prose poems, polemic exist in a polyvalent, quotidian, urgent universe. Gloria Frym is the patriot I’ll vote for, every time”–Anne Waldman.

“Like in the aftermath of a ‘mesmerizing theater of operations,’ Gloria Frym’s solutions tread the water of a flood inundating what we once considered our life. Angry, playful, and unforgiving, these words we thought belonged to us now see only `orphans as far as the future can go.’”–Ammiel Alcalay.