“This Machine Fights Fascists”

In 1943, Woody Guthrie put this phrase on this guitar, believing in the power of song. The quote was from a sticker placed on items coming from a war effort factory. In honor of Woody’s patriotism and faith, the Library offers a program in words and images which will make you feel free. Andrei Codrescu and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright invite you to a double book party.

How to Live Under Fascism, Andrei’s new book from Black Widow Press, is a guide for those who seek poems that terrorize the state with brazen observations about our corrupt body politic. Plus poems about love and the plague and the pleasure of making things up. Andrei’s mother and father were both photographers and this new book also features Andrei’s own photos which are strangely and not so strangely connected.

Erato’s Inbox by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright is another kind of guide book, one that proposes passion as a path to peace and transcendence. Written from the viewpoint of Erato, the muse of love, this mini épopée is a delightful and wise romp, instructive, bawdy, and uplifting. The poem is accompanied by sublime and bizarre AI generated images. Published in collaboration with Barbara Rosenthal and Xanadu Press.