{"id":2400,"date":"2017-10-10T16:43:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T20:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2017-10-10T16:44:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T20:44:24","slug":"tara-skurtus-book-available-for-pre-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2017\/10\/10\/tara-skurtus-book-available-for-pre-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Tara Skurtu’s book available for pre-order!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Skurtu<\/a><\/p>\n

We’re excited to share that Tara Skurtu’s book,\u00a0The Amoeba Game,\u00a0<\/em>is available for pre-order! \u00a0It launches in London this week. \u00a0You can buy\u00a0a copy<\/a> here, and those\u00a0who order this week will receive a discount.<\/p>\n

From the publisher:<\/p>\n

On a journey that begins in South Florida and ends up in Romania, the country of her family\u2019s forgotten history, Tara Skurtu plays \u201cthe amoeba game,\u201d a game that has no rules. With subtle and serious humor, with the vivid spontaneity of memory and dreams, and with surgical precision, these compelling, mysterious poems hold up a lens that reveals the slippery and changing dimensions of our many selves.<\/em><\/p>\n

And here’s info about the London book launch<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Venue<\/strong>: The London Review Bookshop, Bloomsbury, WC1A 2JL<\/span>
\nDate<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/span>Wednesday, October 11th<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>7-9pm<\/span><\/span>.<\/span>
\nEntry Fee<\/strong>: Free Event<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Congrats, Tara!<\/p>\n

Tara Skurtu (Poetry ’13), born in Key West, Florida, is a two-time Fulbright grantee and recipient of\u00a0two Academy of American Poets prizes and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in\u00a0Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Salmagundi<\/em>, the Kenyon Review<\/em>, Plume,<\/em> and Poetry\u00a0Review<\/em>. She is the author of the chapbook Skurtu, Romania<\/em> (Eyewear, 2016) and the full collection of poems The Amoeba Game<\/em> (2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re excited to share that Tara Skurtu’s book,\u00a0The Amoeba Game,\u00a0is available for pre-order! \u00a0It launches in London this week. \u00a0You can buy\u00a0a copy here, and those\u00a0who order this week will receive a discount. From the publisher: On a journey that begins in South Florida and ends up in Romania, the country of her family\u2019s forgotten […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,4162,1353],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions\/2403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}