# Event Details - **Event Name**: Elizabeth Metzger's THE GOING IS FOREVER In-Store Event And Book Signing - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 17 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 17 Sep, 2026 at 08:30 pm (-07:00) - **Event Description**: Elizabeth Presents Her Latest Collection Of Poems, A Breathtaking Distillation Of Love’s True NatureAbout this EventJoin us at Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore on Thursday September 17 at 7:00 PM when famed poet Elizabeth Metzger comes to the store to share her latest collection The Going Is Forever. Elizabeth will be joined by Jesse Nathan and will sign copies of her book after the presentation. to preorder a copy of The Going Is Forever.A collection of “oracular, crystalline, and utterly original” poems wrestling with a life’s shifting social structures and the multifaceted totality of the self (Maggie Millner).Elizabeth Metzger’s third collection traces both holding on and letting go, tracking the non-linear journeys we take and the daily distances we cross for intimacy. Braiding a dissolving marriage, a son’s medical crisis, and the death of a father, the speaker reconceives loss as transformation and longing as ongoing love, exploring the multiplicity of the self in proximity to others. How do we relate to what we cannot know about those we love? How can we separate from one another without embodying parts of ourselves we haven’t met yet?The present revives the past, and every ending becomes a devotion to new beginnings as Metzger transforms ordinary domestic ruptures into intimate portals of pleasure and pain. A degenerative disease spurs a creative awakening. A trip to the farmer’s market invites questions of monogamy. An overgrown yard yields a crisis of faith. These poems fall in love with the absences that define us, retracing our chosen roads while following those less traveled and beckoning unlived lives.Celebrating the ordinary and extraordinary changes we undergo together, this collection explores our most surprising fantasies and deep spiritual yearnings. An honest, intricate, and breathtaking distillation of love’s true nature, The Going Is Forever reminds us that our closest relationships contain endless mysteries, and that there is never just one version of a life.ELIZABETH METZGER is the author of The Going Is Forever and Lying In, as well as The Spirit Papers, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. She has published two chapbooks, Bed and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. Her poems have recently appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review, TLS, and Poetry. She is a poetry editor at The Los Angeles Review of Books and teaches poetry at 92NY and Columbia University.JESSE NATHAN’s poetry has appeared in the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, Alta, Poetry, and the Paris Review. His debut collection Eggtooth won the New Writers Award, the Housatonic Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Golden Poppy here in California. Jesse’s latest collection of prose and interviews One Question was published in April 2026 and he has a forthcoming book of poetry The San Francisco Poem. Jesse teaches literature at University of California, Berkeley.THIS EVENT is free but registration is requested. 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