The Sound of the Earth Singing to Herself
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491_9781913211318
[Chapbook: 46 Pages.] I set desire / on fire / and she screamed/ I couldnt tell / if the scream / was agony / or ecstasywhats the difference? - From Whats Leftand when we settle into our dens at night, we talk of you, as one might talk of a cupped hand, fading slowly, the rest of the body long departed: a rusty bucket, offering water-all thats left of a god. - From Somewhere in IndianaRicky Ray entwines the beauty of the world and his love of life with the weight of physical pain he shoulders daily, in this stunning chapbook which urges you to find new meaning in natures mysterious workings: Every time I look up/ into a canopy, I see a mind at work.In The Sound of the Earth Singing to Herself, Ricky Ray invokes the animalistic yet the utterly, undeniably humane. Visiting the most intimate corners of memory, this is a chapbook that promises linguistic prowess and the healing - however raw - of the ache of living. From Indiana, Florida, and Oklahoma to the inescapable moment of our own death, the moment the sun sinks below the horizon, the moment the cancer / bloomed like an angry / flower in her liver, Rays language is masterful, transfixed on elevating the mundane and exposing every private moment of our existence. - Kayla Jenkins, Writer Praise for The Sound of the Earth Singing to HerselfRicky Rays The Sound of the Earth Singing to Herself is a private archive of unholstered embodiment, imagining disability not as a disconnect or alienation from the environment but as a curious kinship with it, a shared scream in which there is no difference between agony and ecstasy, the speakers body and Oklahoma, generations of teeth and somewhere in Indiana. This is a new song of an old but still echoing America, in which sludgehearted monsters emerge triumphant while families live on dog biscuits, frantically attempting to preserve whatever is left of a god. Both cruelly and comfortingly, Earth Singing
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