Presented by 192 Books, Vincent Katz will be in conversation with Edmund Berrigan to discuss his new book Daffodil (Knopf, 2025). Stopping time on the page to discover the poetic moment where past and present are one, Vincent Katz (called a poet of “vibrant cinematic hunger” by Eileen Myles) opens himself to the fleeting beauty of both culture and nature in this stunning gathering of new work. With his painterly eye and disarming concision on the page, Katz opens this book with a powerful image of “all time sequestered in the fold of a daffodil,” setting the stage for an encounter with the immediacy we must embrace to see the world around us with clarity. “Whether in nature, or on a crowded or empty city street, was all a dream?” Katz writes, considering Daffodil. “New York is a place of return, where we’re aware of faces and other things; there, or in a field of flowers, in places in the distant past and present, love has some inexorable way of continuing.”
A livestream and archived recording will be available at https://paulacoopergallery-studio.com/posts.