Poet Robin Becker to read from new collection ‘Midsummer Count’

IN ALBUQUERQUE AND SANTA FE

Robin Becker, considered by some as the foremost feminist poet of her generation, will read from her new and selected poetry collection, “Midsummer Count,” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, at Bookworks in Albuquerque, and 6 p.m. Thursday, March 19, at Collected Works in Santa Fe.

A blurb by Susan Yannone says Becker “has inspired and instructed us on how to be the portrait of the artist as a Jewish woman, a lesbian, a sister, a daughter, a lover, a traveler and a teacher of the craft of poetry.”

Becker will be in conversation with poet Mary Oishi at Bookworks.

Bookworks is located at 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW in Albuquerque. Collected Works is located at 202 Galisteo St. in Santa Fe.

AT PAGE 1 BOOKS

Iain Thomson will discuss his book “Rethinking Death in and after Heidegger” at 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 20.

Thomson, a distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of New Mexico, is one of the leading experts on the thought of Martin Heidegger and its application to the modern dilemma.

Those interested in attending Thomson’s event are asked to RSVP by calling the store at 505-294-2026.

At 11 a.m. Saturday, March 21, Lynn Underwood will discuss his three volumes in the “Blood Brothers” series — “Our Unspoken Secrets,” “Death on the High Rise” and “Our Last Kiss.”

Underwood’s books probe the emotional and spiritual challenges of life in the modern world.

The bookstore is located at 5850 Eubank Blvd. NE, Suite B-41.

IN SANTA FE

Collected Works will host two authors this week — Nancy Foley and Nathaniel Tetsuro Paolinelli.

Foley will discuss her debut novel “I Am Agatha” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 17. It is about a woman’s devotion to a widow with dementia that sparks a reckoning with life, loss and love’s aftermath.

The novel is loosely based on the late New Mexico minimalist painter Agnes Martin.

At 6 p.m. Friday, March 20, Tetsuro Paolinelli will discuss his new book of photographs, “Seventh and Central: Lowriders.”

The more than 130 photographs are a tribute to Albuquerque’s vibrant lowrider community and are a reflection of lowrider traditions and communities everywhere.

Tetsuro Paolinelli lives in Albuquerque. His photos have been exhibited internationally, and his work is in the permanent collection of the Albuquerque Museum.

Collected Works is located at 202 Galisteo St. in Santa Fe.

IN TAOS

Albuquerque mystery writer James Wilson will discuss and sign copies of his novel “Dancing with Dennis Hopper’s Ghost” at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 18, at Martyrs Steakhouse.

The book is the latest in Wilson’s popular “Fernando Lopez Santa Fe Mystery” series.

The Op-Cit Mystery Book Club is presenting the event.

The restaurant is located at 146 Paseo del Pueblo Norte in Taos.

NEW BOOK PUBLISHED

The University of New Mexico Press has published a book about a little-known aspect of the state’s military history, titled “Lieutenants and Light: Mapping the U.S. Army Heliograph Networks in late 19th Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico.”

There were almost 90 networked heliograph stations at key locations between Fort Stanton and Nogales, Arizona, established between 1882 and 1893. It resulted in what is described as the greatest heliograph network ever built.

Heliographs enabled soldiers to send messages over long distances using Morse code transmitted through sunlight reflections.

The network used mirror-based signaling devices to facilitate communication across remote outposts, forts and detachments. The heliograph became an essential military communication tool of the period.

Robert E.C. Davis is the author of the book.