Poetry. A hybrid combination of wise old sage and someone teetering on the edge describes Ted Pope in performance. On the page his work, likewise, combines ancient wisdom and that which is out of control. A walking contradiction, he is infused with a kind of charge rarely experienced either onstage or on the page, in any time or space, in any culture or Age. In a word, his writing is imbued with an extra-terrestrial grounding that, for the reader, brings on vertigo while being in love with flight. And fly he does! From ancient Egypt to the netherworlds of the subconscious, Ted Pope's REDLIPSTICK takes us on a journey of the imagination bordering on legend. "Hang on!" he says, "and leave the flying to us."

Author City: Morgantown, NC USA

Ted Pope lives in Morganton, North Carolina. He is a spoken-word poet and leader of Somos Dias Del Muertos, a music-poetry band. His work is featured on a 1994 Fern Hill Records release, Live at the Green Door, and has been published in Nexus and the Asheville Poetry Review.