Into the Dance

Al Basile is a lifelong singer-songwriter and poet. His poems feature the rhythm of meter, and the sound of the words is musical as well, with and without rhyme, and his sensibility is naturally metaphoric. It's especially evident when you hear him read from his work; he is a musical performer with or without his band. Into the Dance is his fourth 100 poem collection. There is a strong vein of poetic memoir in his work; many narratives are drawn from a long life in and out of music performi...