WHAT: Book Launch: All Violet by Rani Rivera
WHERE: Progress Place, 576 Church Street, Toronto, Ontario
WHEN: October 27, 2017, Friday | 6:30pm – 9:30pm
All Violet, the posthumous poetry collection of Rani Rivera, a Toronto social activist on mental health advocacy and harm reduction.
A young woman chronicles the experience of living on the margins, in spaces and places where body and mind are flayed by guilt, disappointments and betrayals. Her poems record the shattering trauma of struggling to survive through periods of doubt, fear, rage and pain, creating a narrative of disconnection, indignation, alienation and emptiness, the extremes of suffering and desperation.
Employing lyrical free verse, Rani Rivera has skillfully employed the short line to pinpoint moments of acute perception.
Unadorned, taut and precise cries of pain, loss and fury draw the reader deeper and deeper inside this in-your-face confrontation with a dark world of foreboding alleviated by flashes of mordant wit and grace under fire.
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