The Ritualites
Author | : Michael Nardone |
Publisher | : Book*hug Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2018 |
ISBN-10 | : 177166455X |
ISBN-13 | : 9781771664554 |
Rating | : 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The Ritualites is Michael Nardone's book-length poem on the sonic topography of North America. Composed over ten years at sites all across the continent--from Far Rockaway to the Olympic Peninsula, Great Bear Lake to the Gulf of California--the book documents the poet's listening amid our public exchanges, mediated ambiances, and itinerant intimacies. The Ritualites is a series of linguistic rituals that shift, page to page, through a range of forms and genres--a rhapsodic text for occasional singing and a best-selling thriller, a self-help guide and sabotage manual, a score for solo performance and a cacophony of voices.