Libertine Love Songs, A Collection of Poesy, Prosody, and Prose

by Ronny Knape

Overview

Ronny Knape's Libertine Love Songs is a collection of poetry and prose in which the writing acts as palimpsests that overlay the occult plots of morality plays, journeys, quests, and Jungian archetypes all framed within idiom and phrasing of a Texas tale. Knape's style is of a 17th century moralist like John Bunyan having spent a stint in Aleister Crowley's company and then being dumped into the brain of a working-class Texan obligated to try to explain his journey to his family and neighbors. In short, there's a huge dose of magical realism as the abstractions and the day-to-day experiences of characters in Texas, Mexico, and a Lone Star imagination jostle around. Worth a read for the many places where this combination works.
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Product Details

BN ID:	2940045591843
Publisher:	Ronny Knape
Publication date:	12/16/2012
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	148 KB

About the Author

Born in 1948 in Nitro, West Virgina to a mother and father of pioneer Texana lineage. Ancestry, 1/4 Swedish, 3/16 Cherokee, the other 9/16 of the purest of the pure 'poor white trash.' Parents settled in Richardson, Texas in 1955. I attended Richardson schools 1-12 grades and graduated in 1966. In the fall of '66 I enrolled in the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. As a course of study I concentrated on a well rounded curriculum, elementary imbibing of beer and liquor 101, intermediate marijuana experimentation which led to economics and marketing, and eventually, higher grade courses in international smuggling of marijuana from Mexico and LSD smuggling and sales from California to England and Germany. For electives music and dance grabbed my attention in the form of rock and roll, a smattering of country, and intensive beer barrel honky tonking, and chasing skirts, in other words, getting drunk/stoned/spaced as one can and will do if he is a reprobate, and I qualified as such, and messing around with the women. To be continued: