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Dear, Sal
Inspired by Lanford Wilson’s play Talley’s Folly, Jeremy Radin’s Dear Sal is a series of epistolary meditations on loneliness, longing, the Jewish diaspora, bewilderment, divinity, and love. Radin’s second collection lays bare a life lived in romantic exile, using the play’s events—one year after a brief but passionate affair, a man returns to a deserted boathouse on his beloved’s family property in order to offer himself to her—as the foundation for a mystifying interior stage, populated by a cast of eccentrics, upon which a man must wrestle, each moment, with his own unremitting desire.
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Dear, Sal
Inspired by Lanford Wilson’s play Talley’s Folly, Jeremy Radin’s Dear Sal is a series of epistolary meditations on loneliness, longing, the Jewish diaspora, bewilderment, divinity, and love. Radin’s second collection lays bare a life lived in romantic exile, using the play’s events—one year after a brief but passionate affair, a man returns to a deserted boathouse on his beloved’s family property in order to offer himself to her—as the foundation for a mystifying interior stage, populated by a cast of eccentrics, upon which a man must wrestle, each moment, with his own unremitting desire.
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Dear, Sal

Dear, Sal

by Jeremy Radin
Dear, Sal

Dear, Sal

by Jeremy Radin

Overview

Inspired by Lanford Wilson’s play Talley’s Folly, Jeremy Radin’s Dear Sal is a series of epistolary meditations on loneliness, longing, the Jewish diaspora, bewilderment, divinity, and love. Radin’s second collection lays bare a life lived in romantic exile, using the play’s events—one year after a brief but passionate affair, a man returns to a deserted boathouse on his beloved’s family property in order to offer himself to her—as the foundation for a mystifying interior stage, populated by a cast of eccentrics, upon which a man must wrestle, each moment, with his own unremitting desire.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781945649035
Publisher: Not A Cult
Publication date: 05/08/2017
Pages: 102
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Jeremy Radin was born in southern California's San Fernando Valley, where he began performing in musicals at thirteen years old because he had a lot of energy and Ritalin wasn't working. Since then, he's appeared in several television shows (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, CSI, The Office, ER), movies (The New World, Wrestlemaniac, Nesting), and plays. He has studied for ten years and teaches at The Beverly Hills Playhouse. As a poet, he's been published (or is forthcoming) in various journals including Union Station, Nailed, Sundog Lit, Souvenir, PEN Center's The Rattling Wall, and Freezeray. He's toured the U.S. with his debut book Slow Dance with Sasquatch (Write Bloody Publishing, 2012) where you may have caught a glimpse of him sitting in a restaurant, aggressively eating pancakes by himself. His most recent collection, Dear Sal is with NOT A CULT.

Table of Contents

"In a room on the river" 2

Whatever Time There Is in a Life Is a Lifetime 4

Fabulous Phantoms, I Welcome You! 6

Each Night the Lithuanian & I Go for a Walk in the Park 7

"We set a table for the eating of ghosts" 8

Mt. Casanova Tells a Story 9

The Citizens of The Delicatessen 10

"The citizens of the delicatessen" 12

"What a curious relationship" 14

Now the River Tells What it Saw 15

Now the Owls 15

Now the Stars 16

The Tallow Man 17

"Plopped on the bus stop bench" 19

Ghazal for a Truly Magnificent Dress 20

"In a darkened kitchen" 22

"My response to the news" 23

Tell Me About the Mosquitoes, Sal 24

"Desire is a Plymouth" 26

Little Shofar Offers an Opinion 27

I Will Tell This in the Only Why I Can Tell It 28

"The name of these purple flowers" 29

The Queen of the Weimaraners Introduces the Urns 30

"There was a treaty signed" 31

"Bad news first" 32

Kishka Phil, Through a Mouthful of Kishka 33

"Tonight I am an ox" 34

Eggs! Eggs! Eggs! Eggs! 35

More About the Pigeons 38

Standing at the Station with Grandfather Clock 40

"A goal heart has appeared" 41

A Joke from Have You Heard the One About 43

Villanelle for the Citizens, Ending in an Address to You 45

"I should tell you" 46

Shia Bubik Delivers a History 47

"After all these years" 49

"For nearly a year" 50

I Tell Pants About You & He Says 51

Amazing the Things You Get So Used to That You Don't Know Them Anymore 54

The Lithuanian Speaks 55

"An ancient city of light" 56

"As far as the Name goes" 58

Bashert 60

The Cantor Sings 62

Some Mischievous Angel Has Looked Down & Saw Us 63

Notes 66

Acknowledgements 68

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