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ROMA (R) One Week Only!
Brown, a poetry collection by Kevin Young, is about a lot of things. It’s a meditation on
not only brownness as an identity — a lot of these poems center around Young’s childhood
as a black kid in Kansas — but “brown” as an encompassing theme. The collection is carried
by an undercurrent of art, music, sports and culture, along with more solipsistic ideas of
self. “Brown” comes across sometimes literally, with poems mentioning James Brown and
Brown vs. Board of Education — the “scrolled brown arms of the church pews curve like
a bone,” Young writes in the title piece. Other times, “brown” is more of an enveloping
feeling, which sometimes comes alive with warmth — a pride in the beauty, strength and
glory of brownness. In other glimpses, it’s a look at the shame and self-pity that inherently
comes with growing up brown; in an early piece, Young recalls the time when a racist
neighbor would not let him play on her swing set. Overall, Brown is a beautiful collection
of pieces revolving around not only the things that separate us, but those that bring us
together. My favorites from this collection are “Flame Tempered,” “A Roller Skating Jam
Named Saturdays” and “Triptych for Trayvon Martin.” — Meerah Powell
Brown: Poems by Kevin Young. Penguin Random House, $27.
The most personal project to date from Academy Award-winning director and writer
Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien), ROMA follows Cleo,
a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma
in Mexico City. A vivid and emotional portrait of domestic strife and social hierarchy
amidst political turmoil of the 1970s. In Spanish with English Subtitles.
Fri - Sun 11:00 am, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00
Mon - Thur 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15
AT ETERNITY’S GATE (PG-13)
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh (Willem Dafoe) spends his fi nal
years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds
him. From Academy Award nominated director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell
and the Butterfl y).
Fri - Sun 11:30 am, 2:00, 4:45, 7:10, 9:30
Mon - Thur 1:10*, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30
*1:10 pm show on Wednesday will be played with open captions
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An Object in Motion by Patrick
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When I first met the writer Pat Newson, he was
a bent wild man, part satanic elf and part hobbled
saint, and his whole being bled black ink and
raw, embryonic desire. I immediately identified
something precious and endangered in the short
stories he wrestled to the page: a true writer’s
voice, tender and brutal and wise, something that
can never be taught but which bubbles up from
the primordial gunk of being, a pearl burnished
by the jagged edges inside all of us.
Some years have passed since those heady,
heartbreaking days, and now Newson has
emerged from the belly of the whale with a new
poetry collection, An Object in Motion. It is a
staggering work. It took the wind right out of me,
in the best way possible. It zapped me awake.
The collection is anchored in the theme
of guns, much in the same way Moby Dick is anchored in the theme of whaling: Not
didactically or ideologically, but rather as an intellectual and spiritual flashpoint, a flare
that lights the way to an investigation into the totality of our American experience. They
are forever grounded in the real, the meat and bone of lived experience, whether that is the
writer’s outdoorsy Northwest childhood or his more recent years residing in the battle zone
of Oakland’s urban core.
The truism “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” is as stupid as it is true, and
Newson’s collection puts the lie to our whole sick gun culture — which, after all, is less
about bullets than the lust for brutality that breathes itself into every stitch of our national
fabric. — Rick Levin
teens
Sleeping in My Jeans by Corinne King Leonard. Ooligan Press, $16.
Portland-based Ooligan Press is a sure thing when it comes to books that capture the
Pacific Northwest, and Sleeping in My Jeans is no different — though it captures Eugene
so specifically and perfectly I’m curious to see how readers from other areas respond to it.
The plight of 16-year-old Mattie is terribly familiar here in Eugene, and it shouldn’t be.
She’s homeless. And to add to her struggles, her mom has disappeared with the car they’ve
been living in, leaving Mattie together with her little sister, alone and scared.
Mattie, a biracial teen, is very real in Leonard’s writing, and that’s no surprise given her
bio lists her as a former teacher whose book is inspired by her students’ true stories. The
book will no doubt strongly appeal to young teens — who may not be as thrown by the
dramatic plot twist as I was — and teens should read it to understand the struggles fellow
unhoused students face and dangers out there in the community. And the fact there’s a cute
love interest for Mattie involved doesn’t hurt either. — Camilla Mortensen
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The Barrow Will Send What It May (Danielle Cain Volume 2) by
Margaret Killjoy. Tor.com, $11.99.
When I asked Tor.com to send me a copy of Sarah Gailey’s American Hippo for review,
I casually suggested the publisher toss in anything else Eugene Weekly readers might
like. And thanks to Tor I now know there is a whole genre of fantasy fiction that features
anarchist teens. Why was this not around when I was a teenager who badly needed to read
about anarcho-punks kicking the asses of demons?
Well, I have it now. I normally hate jumping in on a series anywhere but book one, but The
Barrow Will Send What It May is a slim volume, so I gave it a shot, despite it being Volume
2. No regrets. Did I mention these are anarchist demon-fighters? Killjoy breathes life into
Danielle Crain and her band of anarchists on the lam who run into a small town featuring
a couple residents who have come back from the dead. In Killjoy’s fantastic world, fellow
anarchists have taken over the library in this small town in Montana to keep it open and