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    The Ritualites
    The Ritualites
    The Ritualites
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    The Ritualites

    By Michael Nardone

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookhug Press
    Release dateDec 4, 2018
    ISBN9781771664561
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      Book preview

      The Ritualites - Michael Nardone

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      FIRST EDITION

      Copyright © 2018 by Michael Nardone

      The production of this book was made possible through the generous assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. Book*hug also acknowledges the support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit and the Ontario Book Fund.

      Book*hug acknowledges the land on which it operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in

      any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from

      the publisher.

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication


      Nardone, Michael, 1981–, author

           The Ritualites / Michael Nardone.


      Poems. Issued in print and electronic formats.


      ISBN 978-1-77166-455-4 (softcover)

      ISBN 978-1-77166-456-1 
(HTML)

      ISBN 978-1-77166-457-8 (PDF)

      ISBN 978-1-77166-458-5 
(Kindle)


           I. Title.


      PS8627.A735R58 2018 C811’.6 C2018-904272-9 C2018-904273-7

      Introduction

      Michael Nardone’s poetry unsettles territories as it roves through the continent, documenting the neon signs and the billboards, the dinner table conversations, and the overheard terrors of everyday Americana. The book orchestrates unlikely and compelling movements between abstracted, parodic narrative and lyric elegy, which Nardone writes as modulated, cerebral laments for an era’s failure to reach utopia. The poems map what we drive towards, driven mad, driving round the bends in form and through the American landscape—from Pennsylvania to South Dakota to Nevada. Witnessing geographic movement as a kind of living trespass, The Ritualites impressed upon me the need for re-tuning poetry’s ethnographic ear, for transposing attention away from calcified identity and toward living, throbbing practices of civilian life across the United States.

      Nardone’s verses seem to take their cue from Muriel Rukeyser’s citational, attentive documentation of the embodied devastations of corporatized and industrialized belts. In his parodic, aloof prose, the critical lathe seems poised to spin Lisa Robertson’s claim in her succinct poem Envoy: analysis too is a style of affect. Episodic and variegated, the book’s many voices are by turns ventriloquial and verisimilitudinous — sometimes welcoming a careful and attuned ear, sometimes shunning it; sometimes asking for sympathetic leaning, sometimes ironic distance. This is a book that wants the reader to be many-splendored and nimble. My hope has always been for poets to subscribe not to movements or schools of aesthetics, but to be the bearers of urgent form — form as a thing to be broken and held close, at once. Nardone’s collection seems to carry that urgency, seems to know artifice for what it is — a holding pattern for thought’s flight, so it

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