The Munich Readery Presents:
Rita Banerjee’s Echo in Four Beats
The Munich Readery * 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Augustenstr. 104, Munich, Germany
The Munich Readery will host Rita Banerjee for a reading and book signing for her new poetry collection Echo in Four Beats on Saturday, June 2 from 7-8:30 pm! Combining elements, rhythms, and personas from American jazz, blues, and ragtime, poet Rita Banerjee presents a modern-day spin on the love story of Echo and Narcissus in her debut full-length poetry collection, Echo in Four Beats. But in this story, told in four parts, Echo is more than just a fragment, she is a Sapphic voice that speaks, foretells, forestalls, and repeats.
Echo in Four Beats is Finishing Line Press’s 2018 Nominee for the National Book Award in Poetry!
“In our narcissism-addled times, Rita Banerjee awakens Echo out of mythical slumber and accords her center stage… These poems dance nimbly from the playful to the sacred, the pentatonic-ancient to the jazzy-contemporary, the observational to the contemplative, and cross languages and borders with abandon.” — Tim Horvath, author of Understories
“Banerjee has crafted something astonishing that reaches towards higher truths.” — Stephen Aubrey, Co-Artistic Director of The Assembly Theater, NYC
Find more information about Rita Banerjee’s Echo in Four Beats and CREDO Book Tours here!
Rita Banerjee
is the editor of CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing (C&R Press, May 2018) and the author of the poetry collection Echo in Four Beats (Finishing Line Press, March 2018), which was selected by Finishing Line Press as their 2018 nominee for the National Book Award in Poetry, the novella “A Night with Kali” in Approaching Footsteps (Spider Road Press, 2016), and the poetry chapbook Cracklers at Night (Finishing Line Press, 2010). She is the Executive Creative Director of the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop and teaches on modernism, art house film, and South Asian literary theory and aesthetics at the Institute for Indology and Tibetology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany.
Rita Banerjee 