"This" Ameri-can-ah by Curtis L. Crisler
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

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