Wedding of the Foxes with Katherine Larson
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Sunday, Oct 12, 2025 5pm - 6pm
Location
Bright Side Bookshop
18 N. San Francisco St
Details
Date: October 12th, 2025
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM, signing will follow the event from 6:00-6:30.
Location: Bright Side Bookshop, 18 N. San Francisco St.
Join us for an evening with Katherine Larson, celebrating their latest book, Wedding of the Foxes. The event will begin at 5:00 PM with a reading, followed by a Q&A and book signing at 6:00 PM.
About the Book:
From celebrated poet and ecologist Katherine Larson, an elegant collection of lyric essays that embraces fractures, contradictions, and the interconnectedness of life on Earth. Raising two children, coping with pandemic isolation, and grappling with the magnitude of the current extinction crisis, Katherine Larson finds herself in need of an antidote for despair. This is when Larson encounters kintsugi--the art of repairing broken pottery with gold-dusted lacquer.
Wedding of the Foxes borrows from this ancient practice to create a new interpretative framework, one that seeks beauty in both breakage and unexpected connections. Here, Larson juxtaposes the elaborate courtship dance of sandhill cranes with scientific reports on diminishing avian populations to shed light on the urgency of climate crisis. She braids the wisdoms of a wonderfully varied range of forebears and predecessors--Gaston Bachelard, Tawada Yōko, Francis Ponge--who share her dream of a liberated consciousness. She weaves Susan Sontag's examinations of cinematic disaster with the legacy of Godzilla to highlight nature as both savior and destroyer, and she writes letters to Japanese women writers whose work has taught her new ways of being. Each of these disparate parts come together to highlight the beauty in "what falls through the cracks and blurs into other moments."
Brimming with the dazzling yet fragile relationships we share with each other and with other species, these lush microcosms invite us to embrace resilience and mindfulness--and the illuminating truth of our connections.
About the Author: Katherine Larson is a poet, essayist, molecular biologist, and field ecologist. Her debut collection of poems, Radial Symmetry, was selected by Louise Glück as winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. The recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award, she has been published in numerous literary journals including Poetry, Orion, and AGNI. Larson is active with organizations and artists dedicated to conservation and environmental education in the Gulf of California. She lives with her family in Tucson, Arizona.
Books will be available for purchase at the event. We encourage attendees to buy their copies from Bright Side Bookshop to support the author and our local literary community.
This event is free and open to the public! No RSVP required unless otherwise noted.
