Litanies Said Handedly: Poetry, Collage, & Performance

Poetry. "an obscure-side apprenticeship, akin to learning pick- pocketry ; a dark economy guild of seers & sounders a practitioner of call/caul poetics, a self-embodied variorum; a calling forth from within fused with a calling out of the surround, this transactional dynamic yielding a utility of rare gas bases for actualizing the Body Poetique; a Harm's Way Yoga of public poet alchemizing ... the shapeliness of form worn as sound cloak; poet-sound as raiment visibly effecting, with residues that, despite being transitory & palpably temporary, do yet glow invitational & embracingly inclusive, at least for the duration of the given stand & deliver performative engagement the book of poetry, this book of poetry, being an assemblage of Ever-Dance, the shards captured mid-melt as scored scourings meant for the tongue-trigger emptying forth of an early dog days evening : and taking all of 90 minutes to accomplish, off the top..."—Ralph La Charity

"Listeners and lovers of the open mic, ancient-to-the-future scribes of the oral-aural, laya yogis and lyrical-miracle technicians of the sacred, cross-country Whitmaniacs of every stripe and Democratic Vista impulse will delight in journeyman Ralph La Charity's latest from Dos Madres Press in Loveland, OH: LITANIES SAID HANDEDLY: POETRY, COLLAGE, & PERFORMANCE."—Kirpal Gordon

With compañero poets Ken Kawaji and Bill Polak, La Charity created the two hour weekly jazz/poetry broadcast, the Skaldric Cauldron, on WAIF/FM radio Cincinnati in the mid-90s. His poetics samizdat, W'ORCs/ALOUD ALLOWED, began publishing from Amsterdam, Holland in 1986, and continued its run through West Germany, San Antonio, and Cincinnati, having published to date over 90 issues. At http://www.athenswordofmouth.com/, individual pieces of his were posted by Aralee Strange, from the years 2010 thru 2013. He currently appears delivering his poetry aloud as an open participant at open poetry readings throughout the State of Ohio.