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Reception For Gansworth Book
Thursday, November 9 at 6 p.m.
BUFFALO, NY − Canisius College will host a reception on Thursday, November 9 at 6 p.m. in the Grupp Fireside Lounge of the Richard E. Winter ’42 Student Center to celebrate the publication of Eric Gansworth’s new book, Breathing the Monster Alive, a multidisciplinary meditation on faith. A collection of poems, essays and paintings, Breathing the Monster Alive embraces the broad figure of Sasquatch/Bigfoot, and in particular, the Fouke Monster, as manifested in the low-budget early 1970s horror film The Legend of Boggy Creek.
A professor of English and Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College, Gansworth will read from Breathing the Monster Alive, take questions from the audience and sign copies of the book. Original paintings featured in the book will be on display.
Gansworth, an enrolled member of the Onondaga Nation, was born and raised on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation in Lewiston, NY. He has also published three novels, Indian Summers, Smoke Dancing and Mending Skins, as well as a collection of poetry, Nickel Eclipse: Iroquois Moon.
Breathing the Monster Alive is available for $16 at Bright Hill Press; and Amazon books.
For more information, contact Gansworth at (716) 888-2113 or send an E-mail to ganswore@canisius.edu.
Canisius College is one of 28 Jesuit colleges in the nation and the premier private college in Western New York. Canisius prepares leaders – intelligent, caring, faithful individuals – able to promote excellence in their professions, their communities, and their service to humanity.
Date released: 9/28/2006
Thursday, November 9 at 6 p.m.
BUFFALO, NY − Canisius College will host a reception on Thursday, November 9 at 6 p.m. in the Grupp Fireside Lounge of the Richard E. Winter ’42 Student Center to celebrate the publication of Eric Gansworth’s new book, Breathing the Monster Alive, a multidisciplinary meditation on faith. A collection of poems, essays and paintings, Breathing the Monster Alive embraces the broad figure of Sasquatch/Bigfoot, and in particular, the Fouke Monster, as manifested in the low-budget early 1970s horror film The Legend of Boggy Creek.
A professor of English and Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College, Gansworth will read from Breathing the Monster Alive, take questions from the audience and sign copies of the book. Original paintings featured in the book will be on display.
Gansworth, an enrolled member of the Onondaga Nation, was born and raised on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation in Lewiston, NY. He has also published three novels, Indian Summers, Smoke Dancing and Mending Skins, as well as a collection of poetry, Nickel Eclipse: Iroquois Moon.
Breathing the Monster Alive is available for $16 at Bright Hill Press; and Amazon books.
For more information, contact Gansworth at (716) 888-2113 or send an E-mail to ganswore@canisius.edu.
Canisius College is one of 28 Jesuit colleges in the nation and the premier private college in Western New York. Canisius prepares leaders – intelligent, caring, faithful individuals – able to promote excellence in their professions, their communities, and their service to humanity.
Date released: 9/28/2006