CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Author Peggy Yocom will read from her book — “All Kinds of Fur: Erasure Poems & New Translation of a Tale by the Brothers Grimm,” 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 20, at Carrabassett Public Library, 3209 Carrabassett Drive.
The volume is published by Deerbrook Editions of Cumberland. To perform this visual poetry, Yocum will have help from a digital projector as well as her storytelling colleague Rob Lively.
“All Kinds of Fur” offers a new vision of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s controversial “All Kinds Of Fur” (“Allerleirauh”), a lesser-known version of “Cinderella” that opens with incest. Erasing the Grimms’ words to reveal a young woman’s story of her journey to a new, full life, Yocum asks, “What would ‘All Kinds Of Fur’ say if she could tell her own tale?” You can read more about the book (and erasure poetry) and flip through 16 of its pages at Deerbrook Editions’ website: deerbrookeditions.com/kin-s-fur Additional information is available on Peggy’s Yocum’s website: margaretyocom.com
For more information, call the library at 207-237-3535; the event is free and open to the public.
