Scott Cairns Reading at Elliott Bay Book Co.
Saturday, February 9, 5:00 p.m.
Please join Image as poet, essayist, and Eastern Orthodox convert Scott Cairns reads from his new memoir Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven – A Pilgrimage, a chronicle of a unique midlife crisis manifested in the desperate need to seek out prayer.
Provoked by the realization that his spiritual life was “progressing at a snail’s pace,” Cairns traveled to an Orthodox monastery on the Greek island of Mt. Athos, hoping to find a spiritual mentor. Cairns looks back on his journey with down-to-earth wit, in prose that is “earthy and blessedly not sacharrine,” offering a “unique and often compelling perspective on life as a pilgrim” (Publishers Weekly).
Cairns will also read from Love’s Immensity: Mystics on the Endless Life, a gathering of new translations and adaptations from Christian mystics spanning the 1st through 19th centuries.
Scott Cairns has published several books of poetry and prose, including Compass of Affection and Philokalia, and his writing has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Books & Culture, and Image issues 05, 21, 31, 32, and 47. He was recently named a Guggenheim Fellow.
For directions to Elliott Bay Book Company, click here. This event is free and open to the public.
Questions? Call 206.281.2988 or email Julie Mullins.
Julie Mullins
Program Director
IMAGE
(206) 281-2988
jmullins@imagejournal.org