Twin Cities Book Festival
Minnesota State Fairgrounds, Progress Center and Fine Arts Building
1265 Snelling Ave N
St. Paul, MN 55108
United States
IN-PERSON EVENT. Central Time.
Join Michael Bazzett at the Twin Cities Book Festival’s “Minnesota Author Mashup.” Bazzett will be speaking about his poetry collection The Echo Chamber during the third session of the day (1 — 1:45 PM). More details here!
Michael Bazzett
Michael Bazzett is the author of You Must Remember This, which received the 2014 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, The Interrogation, and most recently The Echo Chamber. He is also the translator of The Popol Vuh, the first English verse translation of the Mayan creation epic, which was named a New York Times Best Book of 2018. His poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Ploughshares, The Sun, and Best New Poets. He is a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and lives in Minneapolis.
A collection that explores the myth of Echo and Narcissus, offering a reboot, a remix, a reimagining—and holding up the broken mirror of myth to late-stage capitalism, social media, and our present-day selves.