LEFT COAST WRITERS® BOOK LAUNCH: Poet BECKY FOUST and “Dark CARD” (Texas A & M University Press Consortium, 2008), her award-winning chapbook.

Saturday, September 13 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr.
Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com

“These poems will break and heal your heart, their rage, hope, insight and love carried by a poetic power as targeted as a bullet-train… ”
Barry Spacks, First Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara and
Commonwealth Club of California Poetry Medalist

© 2008 by Laurie McAndish King

Do you know that in Australia the globes are just like American ones, with Australia on the bottom? It boggles my imagination to think about all those people Down Under knowing they live on the bottom of the world, knowing they’re walking around upside down all the time. This would not be the case, of course, if they simply re-drew all the globes to show the southern hemisphere at the top.  Why not do this?