We hope you can join us on Saturday, April 15th at 5:00 PM for a special poetry event in the record store featuring Sadie Dupuis. She will be reading from and discussing her recent book ‘Cry Perfume’ and then she’ll be signing books (and albums!) If you haven’t had a chance to pick up ‘Cry Perfume’ yet, you’ll be able to get one in the record store. This is a free & all ages event, so come one, come all!
Sadie Dupuis is the guitarist, songwriter & singer of rock band Speedy Ortiz, as well as the producer & multi-instrumentalist behind pop project Sad13. Sadie heads the record label WaxNine, edits its poetry journal, and has written for outlets including Spin, Tape Op, and Playboy.She holds an MFA in poetry from UMass Amherst, where she also taught writing. ‘Mouthguard,’ her first book, was published in 2018 (Gramma); ‘Cry Perfume,’ a second poetry collection, was released October 2022 via Black Ocean. Her most recent studio album is Sad13’s HauntedPainting (2020). She is an organizer with the Union of Musicians & Allied Workers and its local UMAW Philly.
The title of ‘Cry Perfume’ is an imperative to bottle sorrow in a beautiful vessel and shed the chemicals that cloud your sight. Written over a four-year period on tour and after losing loved ones and peers to overdose, Dupuis funneled complicated grief into harm reduction advocacy, working to fundraise for and distribute overdose prevention resources in venues internationally .The slick performativeness of pop, punk humor, electronic glitch and sampling, and the surprising leaps of improvisation influence these poems, but beyond music, these poems are informed by Dupuis’s larger concerns about justice and organizing. ‘Cry Perfume’ is a hopeful but realistic inventory of the virtues and evils that emerge when arts and tech collide. Those dualities are cloaked in the same sparkling fragrance, and there are twinned pleasures and regrets in parting the smokescreen.
IMPORTANT PARKING INFORMATION! Our parking lot is shared with other rad businesses and it is a finite space, so parking is limited. In addition to our lot, there is an inexpensive paid parking lot behind Elegy Coffee and Mickey's on Gallatin Road that is a short walk from the shop. Please use EXTREME CAUTION if parking on the nearby, narrow neighborhood streets. Too many cars make these roads impassable and result in angry neighbors, the police being called, and cars being towed. (This is no fun at all.) If possible, please consider carpooling, ride-sharing, walking, biking, scooting, roller skating, or taking the bus to attend Sadie Dupois’ poetry event.
