Amanda Hawkins pops-up at The Portland Art Museum with a reading from her first book of poetry, When I Say the Bones I Mean the Bones.

Hawkins will be paired with the artwork: Assistant Sketch for “The Triumph of Maria de Medici”

About When I Say the Bones I mean the Bones:

The winner of the Wandering Aengus Book Prize, When I Say the Bones I Mean the Bones meditates on earthly processes of change and decay that transpose articulations of life. As Hawkins’s living speakers bear witness to human and nonhuman bodies in various states of decomposition, the line between life and death begins to feel porous and imaginary. To blur that line is both a poetic and political project, Hawkins’s work suggests, in a capitalist culture that depends upon the mirage of its own eternal life.