Local author performs and signs: Kita Shantiris at Beyond Baroque Anonymous August 30, 2015 Loading Map.... Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center681 Venice Blvd - Venice Events 33.9913464 -118.45885909999998 Date/Time Date(s) - 08/30/20158:00 pm - 10:00 pm Location Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center Categories Arts and culture Entertainment and Nightlife Local Business Ad Kita Shantiris will be reading from her new book, What Snakes Want, along with Paul Lieber, in a night filled with haunting, inspiring, and emotional poetry. Slyly sexual, intense and funny, in What Snakes Want Kita Shantiris strips secrets of their power by telling them. Running away and returning, burying and unearthing, she—and a cast that includes abused siblings, desperate spinsters, and an army medic—struggle to escape their shadows. Throughout, startling metaphors and evocative images bring them to life. A psychologist who runs a non-profit mental health center, Shantiris faces trauma, yearning, love and loss head on. What Snakes Want traverses a menacing, bleak landscape as its characters shed their ghosts. Full of word play and mischief, sensuous love poems follow; never have oranges, or the word “dictum,” been racier. The haunting elegies in the final section breathe life into the dead. Fearless and compassionate, in What Snakes Want Kita shines light in our dark places. Readers will return to these haunting poems again and again. For more info: http://www.rarebirdbooks.com/rbevents/2015/8/30/kita-shantiris-presents-and-signs-what-snakes-want-at-beyond-baroque-in-venice-ca