Description
Poetry. "an obscure-side apprenticeship, akin to learning pick-pocketry ; a dark economy guild of seers & sounders a practitioner of call/caul poetics, a self-embodied variorum; a calling forth from within fused with a calling out of the surround, this transactional dynamic yielding a utility of rare gas bases for actualizing the Body Poetique; a Harm's Way Yoga of public poet alchemizing ... the shapeliness of form worn as sound cloak; poet-sound as raiment visibly effecting, with residues that, despite being transitory & palpably temporary, do yet glow invitational & embracingly inclusive, at least for the duration of the given stand & deliver performative engagement the book of poetry, this book of poetry, being an assemblage of Ever-Dance, the shards captured mid-melt as scored scourings meant for the tongue-trigger emptying forth of an early dog days evening : and taking all of 90 minutes to accomplish, off the top..."—Ralph La Charity
"Listeners and lovers of the open mic, ancient-to-the-future scribes of the oral-aural, laya yogis and lyrical-miracle technicians of the sacred, cross-country Whitmaniacs of every stripe and Democratic Vista impulse will delight in journeyman Ralph La Charity's latest from Dos Madres Press in Loveland, OH: LITANIES SAID HANDEDLY: POETRY, COLLAGE, & PERFORMANCE."—Kirpal Gordon
Author Bio
For better than 45 years, Ralph La Charity has been an Open Poetry agitator/participant across America's abundant hide. He currently bills himself as a poet in private practice. This book, his third from Dos Madres Press, is his seventh poetry volume overall: BLOOD VERTIGO (Dos Madres Press, 2019); LITANIES SAID-HANDEDLY (Dos Madres Press, 2017); FAREWELLIA A LA ARALEE (Dos Madres Press, 2014); Seatticus Knights (Black Heron Press, 1985) in collaboration with visual artists Aholaah Arzah & Michael McCafferty; Color Ado (Catcher Press, 1980) with art & printing by Ken Muenzenmayer; Glass Ass Runaround (co-published Bench Press & After Hour Press, 1980) in collaboration with visual artist Carl Filkorn; Monkey Opera (co-published Bench Press & Kent Area Poet's Shelly's Press, 1979) with art and art & printing by Ken Muenzenmayer.
Author City: CINCINNATI, OH USA