JOIN US ON SUNDAY, MAY 5 AT 1PM WHEN SONJA SWIFT CELEBRATES HER BOOK, ECHO LOBA, LOBA ECHO: OF WISDOM, WOLVES AND WOMEN, AT THE SAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDEN!
This event is the latest installment of the Books on the Garden event series, a partnership between the San Francisco Botanical Garden and Green Apple Books
This is a free event (minus admission to the Garden for non-SF residents). Please purchase a ticket to the San Francisco Botanical Garden for May 5th if you are not a San Francisco Resident, a member or a part of Museums for all.
Books by our featured author will be available for purchase.
Folding chairs will be provided. Attendees are always encouraged to bring blankets or chairs for sitting on the grass.
About Echo Loba, Loba EchoA unique look at the cultural, environmental, historical, literary, metaphorical, and political role of the wolf.
Echo Loba, Loba Echo is a story about the metaphor of the wolf and how this is echoed in the lives and minds of people. A metaphor that embodies worldviews colliding, and the collision, the fallout, we live with still. It is a story about wolves’ own cultures, survival stories, acts of rebellion, and vital roles in maintaining healthy territories. And it is also a story about what we have been told to forget, or never even know, and what wolves show us about ourselves.
Through essay and poetry, the metaphor of the wolf, and loba – for she-wolf – is examined the way one might observe the light off a prism, in multi-dimensional ways. The associations are many and diametrically varied. Wolf as scapegoat, villain, outcast, blamed for human violence. Wolf as warrior, guide, mother to stray or orphaned children as well as her own pups. The Ojibwe word for wolf is ma’iingan: the one sent here by that all-loving spirit to show us the way. Wolf (Latin: lupus), which is another word for whore (lupa), for woman. Wolf, another word for backcountry. Yet the choice is not an easy duality, not simply between the notion of wolf as heroine or wolf as devil.
About Sonja SwiftSonja Swift is a writer and poet of hybrid forms. She has published a range of poems, as well as various articles and photo essays. Alumna of California College of the Arts, she is the author of Alphabet Atlas, a chapbook of prose poems published by Deconstructed Artichoke Press, and Tarot of Transformation, a series of vignettes published by True Story. Sonja is Danish American and comes from dusty, sometimes emerald, coastal hills, amid a chain of old volcanic peaks that stretch into the Pacific Ocean. Echo Loba, Loba Echo: Of Wisdom, Wolves, and Women is her first book.
About Books on the GardenBooks on the Garden is an event series collaboration between the San Francisco Botanical Garden and Green Apple Books. On the last Saturday of every month, a different literary event will take place at the San Francisco Botanical Garden with a wide variety of topics, always coinciding with and honoring nature, botanicals, and our beautiful garden setting.
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