Bruce Whitacare Reading and Book Signing
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Nebraska native Bruce E. Whitacre returns for a tour of his second poetry collection, Good Housekeeping.
Whitacre last appeared in Nebraska in April 2023 with his first collection, The Elk in the Glade: The World of Pioneer and Painter Jennie Hicks. That tour coincided with the first-ever museum show of his great-grandmother Jennie Hicks’ paintings at the Dawson County Historical Museum and a presentation at the Museum of the High Plains in McCook.
Publishers Weekly BookLife (Editor’s Pick) says:
Whitacre’s Good Housekeeping is a piercing gaze into the locus of human life, the home—or “this cave, this tree, // this realm where loved ones circle and unwind.” Whitacre takes on timeless themes and in a contemporary context, touching on consumerism, war, and the climate crisis, while also entering an intimate space where mundane domestic scenes connect to what makes us most human: love, memory, and grief. @poetswearprada @bruceewhitacare
Whitacre’s Good Housekeeping is a piercing gaze into the locus of human life, the home—or “this cave, this tree, // this realm where loved ones circle and unwind.” Whitacre takes on timeless themes and in a contemporary context, touching on consumerism, war, and the climate crisis, while also entering an intimate space where mundane domestic scenes connect to what makes us most human: love, memory, and grief. @poetswearprada @bruceewhitacare
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