Ritual and Bit
Published on 1. March 2016
61 pages
978-0-9962206-5-1 (ISBN)
Description
The landscape of Ritual and Bit is littered with the speaker's past: empty 40s, old posters, family lies, and fragmented missives. Internal struggles play out in the detritus of long-ago. Yet even as the speaker attempts to cautiously map his movements, effect a survival, and navigate beyond his past, he faces emotional fissures wrought by the present. Throughout the book, he restlessly searches for ways to regain control of his life, partly through ceremonies, prayers, and devotions, and partly through lyrical force. The danger is palpable among wolves and claws, boxcutter and jackknife. There's both caution here and a willingness to abandon caution if anything or anyone could be reached. The poems ask, What makes a home? What should we expect when we are so determined to live in a world where everything is disappearing?
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright
- Contents
- Wolf Among Dala Horses
- In the Garden
- In Pine Barrens
- Anechoic Chamber
- Litany of Our Loyalty
- Work
- The Driver Says
- Litany for Deliverance
- Troubled Asset Relief
- Spell for Sleeping
- Litany for Exodus
- The Least Least Thing
- Everything Before
- In Literal Surroundings
- Wolf Among Dala Horses
- Tenet Meadows
- The Six Swans
- Of Herons
- Ten Stories
- Naming Ceremony
- For the Ghost of Carlos
- The Future Will Be an Underdressed Idea of the Future
- They Were a Florist and a Hatchet
- At Last the Sirens
- Cross the Bridge Quietly
- The Future
- Litany for Strength
- Habitual
- When We Heard the Hoofbeats We Expected a Horse
- Portrait of a Tyrant
- With My Brother
- What Found Is Here
- New World Elegance
- Those Other than Against
- His List of Enchanted Things
- Introduction to What You Are About to Read
- Notes
