May 13, Thursday, 7 p.m.
MARION COPELAND
Cockroach

Free and open to the public.
At the Odyssey Bookshop, upstairs
9 College Street, South Hadley, MA
Info:  (413) 534-7307

Sponsored by the College of Humanities and Fine Arts
at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and
the Odyssey Bookshop.

Scuttling along almost unchanged for 250 million years, the cockroach must
be doing something right.  From its natural history to its cultural
significance, former Holyoke Community College professor Marion Copeland
paints a sympathetic and often humorous portrait of a loathed pest, a food
delicacy, a valued source for folk and homeopathic cures, an inspiration
for literature --- e.g., Kafka's "Metamorphosis" and Don Marquis's ARCHY
AND MEHITABEL --- and a simply extraordinary creature.