Azad Ashim Sharma: Boiled Owls
@ Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 6PM - 7PM
Azad Ashim Sharma will discuss Boiled Owls. He will be joined in conversation by Edgar Garcia. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.
At the Co-op
About the Book: Boiled Owls refers to an old colloquialism: to be as boiled as an owl, to be drunk. Azad Ashim Sharma turns the phrase into a surrealist exquisite corpse in which the body and mind of a drug addict melt into the seams of personhood, spreading out into the wider world and recovering friends, family, love, and humor as strands of support. Troubling the dogma and pop cultural representations of twelve-step program discourse, Sharma emphasizes the mundane and non-linear aspects of recovery, ultimately positing addiction as an internalization of capitalism and recovery as the development of a socialist consciousness.
About the Author: Azad Ashim Sharma is the director of the 87press, poetry editor at the CLR James Journal, Philosophy and Global Affairs, and a PhD Candidate in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. He holds a BA in English and a Post Graduate Diploma in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex as well as a Masters in Creative-Critical Writing from Birkbeck College. He is the author of three poetry collections, most recently, Boiled Owls (Nightboat Books/Out Spoken Press, 2024). He is the recipient of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Book Award (2023). He lives in South London. His poetry and essays have been published widely and internationally, most recently in Wasafiri.
About the Interlocutor: Edgar Garcia Edgar Garcia is the author of Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography (Fence Books, 2019), Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu (University of Chicago Press, 2020), and Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2022). He is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. In 2022-24 he is visiting Editor in Chief of Fence Magazine.
Event Location:
The Seminary Co-op
5751 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Chicago 60637
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