Songs of Chaos

by Bill Suter

Overview

Songs of Chaos is a collection of poetry, prose and prose poems that explores darkness and light and despair and courage both thoughtfully and ferociously. Its purpose is to teach our madness how to sing even if those songs are mere whispers. The works in this volume are both passionate and provocative, but they are also very honest and come from a place that is a collective memory.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781087909950
Publisher:	New Plains Press
Publication date:	11/30/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	84
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

In Songs of Chaos, Suter twists familiar happenings into unknown paths, crafting a compelling narrative that can plunge the reader into a secretive darkness (as in "Under the Lighthouse," "Marionette," or "The Stone Garden"), while at the same time illuminating the themes of courage and resilience. At times darkly humorous, and at others filled with anguish or gleaming in sudden blazes of unbound happiness, these poems and poetic proses bear a rare veracity that is bound to remain with the reader long after having finished the book. - Federica Santini, author of Io era una bella figura una volta, and editor of Deconstructing the Model in 20th and 21st-Century Italian Experimental Writings Strong invention and pleasurable music await readers of this book of poems. The experience will lead the reader through many pathways and byways of sound and sense; and, though their coordinates may not easily materialize later, there will be no forgetting the memory of a progress through strange, even haunt- ing soundscapes. - Al Shoaf, author of Language to Live In & Erotic Reckonings

Table of Contents

A Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1

Angel 2

Mister & Misery 3

Under the Lighthouse 4

Pretty Poison 9

On the Downside 11

The Way Goes On 13

The Apostle's Erection 14

Stepford Lives 15

Underground 16

Sign Language 17

The Mad Story of a True Man 18

Marionette 20

Witness 21

At the Gate 22

Gulliver 23

Eye of the Zombie 24

Rearview 25

Into the Air 26

Cinnamon 27

Fallen 28

Twilight 29

Bird of White Silence 30

American Dream Therapy 32

Letter from Another Country 33

When Beauty Met the Beast 37

The Conversation 39

Sleep Studies 42

War Games 43

Imaginary Lover 44

Auto Focus 45

Outward Bound 46

The Beloved Object 47

City on the Edge of Forever 48

Tragic Kingdom 50

Island of Lost Luggage 51

Sympathy for the Devil 53

I am the Night. That is My Name. 55

Baghdad Cafe 56

epitaph 58

Absurdistan 60

When Parallel Lines Intersect 62

So Far Away from Here 63

Dialogue 64

Statesman 66

Creditorial 68

Buried Pleasure 69

Triptych 70

The Stone Garden 72

Fable 73

The W

ay Goes ground

16

Sign Language

17

The M

ad Story Of A T

rue M

an

18

Marionette

20

Witness

21

At The Gate

22

Gulliv

er

23

Eye Of The Zombie

24

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