Come shake it with Internationalist Books at Nightlight (405 1/2 W. Rosemary St.) from 9 PM to the wee hours as we celebrate with local hip hop/DJ sensation L in Japanese! All proceeds at the door will benefit your favorite progressive community center and bookstore. More info coming soon!

Join Internationalist Books for an exciting and evocative reading with acclaimed poet William La Riche, as he reads from his latest work, "To the House of Collateral Damage: Centuries of the Civilian Dead."

This incredibly ambitious, book-length poem takes on the modern problem of war. The poem's great achievement is that it situates our own age, not as a golden age, but as one notable for its harshness and brutality, especially towards noncombatants, as well as for the beauty of the language that can be found to describe and understand that brutality, and perhaps to change it. Homer's *Iliad* and Virgil's *Aeneid* allow us, two and a half millennia later, to experience the complexity and contradictions of the ancient world. La Riche proposes, boldly, to observe and judge our own world through the contradictions of our relationship to war. Read more at http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100785310.

William La Riche was a Fulbright Scholar and has lectured at New York University and Princeton University in art and architecture over the years. His previous book *Alexandria: The Sunken City* is about the largest underwater excavation of all time. He lives in New York City.