Discover Nick Martino's poetic exploration of family and memory at Boswell Book Company.
Nick Martino brings his debut poetry collection, Scrap Book, to Boswell Book Company, offering a unique glimpse into the intertwining of personal history and poetic expression. This collection, which won the 2024 Alice James Editors' Choice Award, explores the impact of his father's prison sentence through a blend of poems, archival fragments, and invented forms. It's a reflective journey through trauma and memory, inviting readers to piece together their own narratives.
The event promises an engaging evening with Martino, whose work has been recognized in publications like Best New Poets and Narrative. His exploration of Milwaukee's landscapes and personal history provides a textured backdrop for his poetry. Whether you're a poetry enthusiast or new to the genre, this event offers a chance to connect with a local voice making waves in the literary world.
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Boswell Book Company presents an evening with Milwaukee native Nick Martino, author of Scrap Book, a lyric, hybrid collection of poems centered on the exploration of his father’s prison sentence and its aftermath. Weaving poems with invented forms, familial documents, and fragmented memory, Martino constructs an autoethnographic study of carceral trauma and its reverberations across generations. Through its use of ekphrasis and archival fragments, Scrap Book creates a textural interior landscape in which the speaker wrestles with how they see themselves and how they are seen by others. Ultimately, Scrap Book is a work of gathering and repair - a lyrical stitching-together of fragments in search of meaning. In reassembling the family archive, Martino opens a space for readers to do the same: to sift through memory, injury, and ego, and fashion from their own "scraps" a deeper understanding of what they carry.
