Michael Cervas, head of the English Department at Westminster School, will give a reading from his newest book of poems titled “Captivated,” on Sept 20.
In the book, which was published in June by Antrim House, Michael “pulls out all the stops” according to his publisher, the poet Rennie McQuilkin. “As in his earlier book, ‘Inside the Box’ (2007), readers are given splendid poems in which history, science, foreign culture and sport are metaphors for essential truth, but now there is an even greater admixture of hilarity and irony, increased emotional depth and a series of love poems to die for, though beneath it all, a current of melancholy runs deep.”
Michael’s book “begins with poems of childhood, an Edenic condition in which the serpent is never far off but sometimes forgotten. Throughout the book, jubilation and anxiety do battle and both win.”
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The reading is free and open to the public and will take place at 7 p.m. in the Gund Reading Room of the Armour Academic Center. The school is located at 995 Hopmeadow Street in Simsbury. Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the reading and ample parking will be available
