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"Out with the old and in with the new" never rang more true than for the staff and the members of the American Library in Montpellier. The year 2000 was a year full of momentous changes and new beginnings. In April, the library moved from its home of 25 years at 11 Rue Saint Louis to new quarters in the magnificent, state-of-the-art Richter Library. It took some time for our members to get used to our new location but they did find us eventually and now membership and circulation statistics are increasing steadily. One of our main concerns after the move was how we were going to continue and expand our cultural programs and special activities in our new location. Thanks to the efforts of the library staff and those of the Friends of the American Library association, we have found a new and generous partner in the Maison Pour Tous Voltaire. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the staff of the Maison Pour Tous for their support.
So, as we ring in the new year and a new millennium, we would like to extend to all of you our very best wishes for a happy, healthful and exciting new year! Kevin Lightner
COMING EVENTS Poetry Reading Marilyn Hacker Mrs. Hacker is the author of nine books, including Presentation Piece which received the National Book Award in poetry in 1975, Winter Numbers, which received a Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Award of The Nation magazine and the Academy of American Poets, both in 1995, and the verse novel, Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons. Her Selected Poems was awarded the Poets' Prize in 1996. Going Back to the River received a Lambda Literary Award in 1991. Her most recent book, Squares and Courtyards, was published by W.W. Norton in 2000. A Long-Gone Sun, her translation of Claire Malroux's poem-memoir Soleil de Jadis, was just published by The Sheep Meadow Press. Here There was Once a Country, translations of poems by Venus Khouiy-Ghata, will be published in the spring of 2001. She was the editor of The Kenyon Review from 1990-1994, and co-edited a special issue of Poetry magazine on contemporary French poetry translation in the Fall of 2000.
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April 7, 2001 at 6 P.M. San Francisco's most original theater company, Word for Word, returns this year for it's keenly anticipated French Tour. This year Word for Word presents The Bunchgrass Edge of the World, Annie Proulx's searing and comical family saga set on the high Wyoming plains. The power of the written word and the sharpness of Annie Proulx's unique characters have earned her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (The Shipping News 1994) as well as numerous other awards. The Bunchgrass Edge of the World is a family saga of love and revenge, longing and endurance, peopled with wind burned, fatalistic westerners of the high Wyoming plains. The hard-bitten Touhey family consists of Old Red "born in Lusk in 1902," his son Aladdin "he had the rancher's expectation of disaster, never believed in happy endings," Aladdin's wife Wauneta, the 2 youngest Touheys, Shan and Tyler, who have left for the eccentric pleasures of Las Vegas, and their older sister, Ottaline "distinguished by a physique approaching the size of a hundred-gallon propane tank." Ottaline, desperately lonely, spends her spare time listening in on cell-phone conversations. An encounter with the old 4030 tractor rusting away in the gravel pit shockingly opens Ottaline to love. Directed by Sandra Langsner Crews.
Word for Word's French Tour is funded by a generous grant from the Florence Gould Foundation with support from Air France From the Word for Word Web Site : Word for Word is a professional theatre company that stages short stories, performing every word the author has written. Our goals are to excite people about the written word, to inspire them to read more, to create new audiences for the theatre, and to share the world's diverse cultures and stories. As one of our company members says: "It's like being read to and then some. While it's fully literary in content, it's completely theatrical in form."
BOOK SALE The Book Sale is back! Our very popular book sale is scheduled for Saturday, May 5th at the Maison Pour Tous Voltaire. Those of you whose bookshelves are groaning under the weight of surplus books, tapes, CDs, videos and magazines will be happy to know that we are accepting donations now. Please bring them to the Library in small cartons since we will have to move them all the day before the sale. There will be further announcements about the Book Sale in the coming months.
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