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"This" Ameri-can-ah by Curtis L. Crisler
now available
at Cherry Castle Publishing
now available
at Cherry Castle Publishing
Curtis L. Crisler is the man—the bone man, the heart man,
the roaming coyote-man howling from the breath’s bowels. He’s a poet of the
body—profoundly so—because his body extends into the contemporary culture of
“This” Ameri-can-ah, its people and their public and private griefs. He writes
to and from the body with urgency as if Lorca meets Langston Hughes at the
corner of Miles and Muddy. And he interrogates the stuckness of individual
identity, telling us, “A strong lonely lodges / in his belly, and he cannot see
sky.” Still, Crisler’s vision finds redemption in the generative accretion of
speech itself: “How our utterances will drive / smack into air like the sparrow
veering to a new / direction.” This new direction that language lends—his
remarkable images and linguistic depth—is Crisler’s tenderly bold love song to
the ups and downs & ins and outs of our culture. As he says, “I am not
afraid of a word clamping its fangs into my muscle; I have a serum; / I have a
moment in my bones that I can watch over & over on 35mm recall, // or in
Blue-Ray HD.” “This” Ameri-can-ah is our Ameri-can-ah, a public pool of
possibility Crisler assures us in this stunning new book that is well within
the redemptive reach of the poet’s tongue. - George Kalamaras, Poet Laureate of
Indiana
To order your copy of this breakthrough book today, go to:
http://www.cherrycastlepublishing.com/store.html#americanah
Only $16.95
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