April 17: Vincent Katz—Daffodil

Presented by 192 Books, Vincent Katz in conversation with Edmund Berrigan to discuss his book Daffodil (Knopf, 2025)

This event will take place in person at 192 Books at 192 10th Ave on Thursday, April 17th at 7:00 PM ET. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. The discussion will also be streamed directly on this page. There is no login required. A recording will be archived.

Books will be available for sale after the conversation.

Vincent Katz—Daffodil: And Other Poems (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.”

Vincent Katz is a poet, translator, and critic. He is the author of the poetry collections Broadway for Paul, Southness, and Swimming Home, as well as a coauthor of Fantastic Caryatids with Anne Waldman and A Possible Epic of Care with Andrei Codrescu. Katz is the author of The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius, translations of the Roman love poet, and is currently translating the Works and Days and the Theogony of Hesiod. He is the editor of Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art, and his criticism has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail and The Poetry Project. He lives in New York City.

Edmund Berrigan is the author of More Gone. Other books include We'll All Go Together and Can It! Berrigan is co-editor with Anselm Berrigan, Alice Notley, and Nick Sturm of Get the Money (Collected Prose 1961-1983) by Ted Berrigan.