Songs of Chaos is a collection of poetry, prose and prose poems that explores darkness and light and despair and courage both thoughtfully and ferociously. Its purpose is to teach our madness how to sing even if those songs are mere whispers. The works in this volume are both passionate and provocative, but they are also very honest and come from a place that is a collective memory.
This concludes the full description.
In Songs of Chaos, Suter twists familiar happenings into unknown paths, crafting a compelling narrative that can plunge the reader into a secretive darkness (as in "Under the Lighthouse," "Marionette," or "The Stone Garden"), while at the same time illuminating the themes of courage and resilience. At times darkly humorous, and at others filled with anguish or gleaming in sudden blazes of unbound happiness, these poems and poetic proses
bear a rare veracity that is bound to remain with the reader long after having finished the book.
- Federica Santini, author of Io era una bella figura una
volta, and editor of Deconstructing the Model in 20th
and 21st-Century Italian Experimental Writings
Strong invention and pleasurable music await
readers of this book of poems. The experience
will lead the reader through many pathways
and byways of sound and sense; and, though
their coordinates may not easily materialize
later, there will be no forgetting the memory
of a progress through strange, even haunt-
ing soundscapes.
- Al Shoaf, author of Language to Live In
& Erotic Reckonings
A Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1
Angel 2
Mister & Misery 3
Under the Lighthouse 4
Pretty Poison 9
On the Downside 11
The Way Goes On 13
The Apostle's Erection 14
Stepford Lives 15
Underground 16
Sign Language 17
The Mad Story of a True Man 18
Marionette 20
Witness 21
At the Gate 22
Gulliver 23
Eye of the Zombie 24
Rearview 25
Into the Air 26
Cinnamon 27
Fallen 28
Twilight 29
Bird of White Silence 30
American Dream Therapy 32
Letter from Another Country 33
When Beauty Met the Beast 37
The Conversation 39
Sleep Studies 42
War Games 43
Imaginary Lover 44
Auto Focus 45
Outward Bound 46
The Beloved Object 47
City on the Edge of Forever 48
Tragic Kingdom 50
Island of Lost Luggage 51
Sympathy for the Devil 53
I am the Night. That is My Name. 55
Baghdad Cafe 56
epitaph 58
Absurdistan 60
When Parallel Lines Intersect 62
So Far Away from Here 63
Dialogue 64
Statesman 66
Creditorial 68
Buried Pleasure 69
Triptych 70
The Stone Garden 72
Fable 73
The W
ay Goes ground
16
Sign Language
17
The M
ad Story Of A T
rue M
an
18
Marionette
20
Witness
21
At The Gate
22
Gulliv
er
23
Eye Of The Zombie
24
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