Description
"Reading these absolutely terrific poems, with their southern colloquial drawl and sober Buddhist insight, is a bit like having a sage old sleepy tiger purr in your ear while you lie at the edge of the swamp in back of Billy-Joes's pickup truck."--Dazed & Confused Magazine
"Sustaining, inspiring, even rescuing."--Will Oldham, musician
"A true beast of a man with insight and beauty to spare."--Harmony Korine, filmmaker
"Brett Eugene Ralph can look at a woman dancing alone, 'eyes closed, lips parted, held aloft / in one hand half a mango, / a gigantic butcher knife / clutched in the other, ' and know immediately that she's praying."--Andrew Hudgins
Brett Eugene Ralph lives in rural western Kentucky. His country-rock ensemble, Brett Eugene Ralph's Kentucky Chrome Revue, can be heard in seedy dives throughout the South.
Author: Brett Eugene Ralph
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 07/01/2009
Pages: 59
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9781932511734
ISBN10: 1932511733
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
About the Author
Ralph's work has appeared in Conduit, Mudfish, Willow Springs, The American Poetry Review, The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets, and Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader. Currently, he teaches at Hopkinsville Community in rural western Kentucky. His country-rock ensemble, Brett Eugene Ralph's Kentucky Chrome Revue, can be heard in seedy dives throughout the South.