Danny Rosen & J Grabowski w/ Starry Skemes: A Two-Way Book Party & Concert

Two-Way Mirror books celebrates the release of its latest books: Danny Rosen‘s A Love Poem Called War and J Grabowski‘s POMPEI: or The Notes Are In The World, with music by J Lee’s Starry Skemes. Publisher Marina Lazzara hosts.

Each morning Danny Rosen pees on the bank of the largest unnamed tributary to the East Branch of Big Salt Wash which flows into the Colorado River several miles below Fruita, Colorado. Early on he learned to swing a hammer and that changed everything. He has been a poet, publisher, teacher, geologist, astronomer, and carpenter. In the middle of his journey he found himself running an astronomical observatory in the heart of the Namib Desert under the southern sky where he cultivated an optimistic outlook based on his familiarity with big space and deep time. He is the author of Suspended Erosion (2024), The Tuscan Journals & Other Poems (2022), Primate Poems (2016), Ghosts of Giant Kudu (2013), and That Curve (2006). He founded Lithic Press in 2007 and has run Lithic Bookstore since its opening in 2015. An inveterate rock hanger, he has collaborated with beavers on a variety of landscape installations.

J Grabowski is an artist from New York whose practice explores drawing, writing, painting, sculpture, movement, and music. He cofounded PUSH Press, the Heliopolis Project (2010-2015), POMPEI and Turtle Records. Previous publications include Time Landscape (Bird & Beckett, 2017).

J.Lee is a San Francisco is a San Francisco multi instrumentalist, songwriter, improviser, modular synthesist and visual artist. He is a member of the indie psych rock band Starry Skemes and the experimental rock band Warm Spell. He has formerly played with the Rabbles, Static Faction and Aerosol Species.