Start Date: 10/28/08

Reading & Performance by Poet & Novelist Ed Lueders

Ken Sanders Rare Books is pleased to announce a reading by poet, novelist, and essayist Ed Lueders on Thursday, November 20th at 7:00 p.m. at our downtown bookstore (268 South 200 East). Copies of Lueders books, including his classic The Clam Lake Papers, will be available for purchase and signing. This event is free and open to the public.

Ed Lueders is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Utah, where he served at various times as Director of Creative Writing, Chairman of the English Department, and Editor of Western Humanities Review. Since his retirement from the University in 1991, he teaches writing on the summer faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, in Vermont. In 1992 he received the Governor's Award in the Humanities from the Utah Humanities Council "for outstanding contributions to public understanding and appreciation of the humanities through academic, intellectual, writing, and teaching skills."

As a poet, writer, and editor, he has published eleven books. Among them are a work of creative non-fiction, The Clam Lake Papers; a novel, The Wake of the General Bliss; a symposium, Writing Natural History; and four anthologies of modern poetry, the most recent being the translations in collaboration with Naoshi Koriyama, Like Underground Water: The Poetry of Mid-20th Century Japan. Best known is the collection edited with Stephen Dunning and High Smith, called Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle. His work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including The New Republic, Smithsonian, Poetry, Southern Review, Theology Today, and the Louisville Courier-Journal.

For many years Lueders has also been a professional jazz pianist. He played in the winter at Rustler Lodge in Alta, and currently performs at Capitol Reef Inn at Torrey, where he and his wife, Deborah Kenison, have their home.

For further information, contact:
Ken Sanders Rare Books
268 South 200 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
(801) 521-3819

Kill Date: 11/20/08

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