{"product_id":"beggars-songbook-paperback","title":"Beggar's Songbook - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNathanael Stolte\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a collection that calls for ceremony. I'd like to gather my beloved band of misfits, go out in search of a wrecked old building, build a small fire, gather around, and read \u003cem\u003eBeggar's Songbook\u003c\/em\u003e aloud together inside the crumbling walls. The poems in \u003cem\u003eBeggar's Songbook \u003c\/em\u003eare elegies, turnkeys, reckonings with \"un-birth,\" pipe bombs, hexes, correspondences with the poltergeists of memory, and invitations: to claw open the petroleum-stained soil with our faulty human hands, to find the seeds that might still grow. They are trembling meditations, tributes to the doomed, tender and howling offerings of forgiveness, excavations of the bound body, entreaties of personal and planetary liberation. They are confessions that vibrate with pounding fists of an ego that will not be permitted to enter. They are chronicles of wreckage. They are possibilities that ascend only from such wreckage. Like the Coyote in his poem \"Sights Unseen,\" Nathanael William Stolte's poems \"shape-change\" and \" Tell] the truth with a diamond tongue \/ Sharp and precise.\" In other words, amidst those of us who \"confuse self-loathing for humility,\" Stolte has written a book of subterranean prayers that blaze with gasoline-soaked candor. Though unholy stenches may rise from our throats, \u003cem\u003eBeggar's Songbook\u003c\/em\u003e shakes and growls and whimpers us awake, humbles us to name what is unnamed within ourselves, and implores us to recognize the miracle of our own breath.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Rebecca Nison (poet, writer, educator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou don't know what to expect sometimes... This tall earnest guy among drunken Buffalo (NY)...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ei think we hung out first cuz he knew a good diner... one day he hands me a book and says\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"my first chapbook  Tell me what you think sometime \"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eHmmm... It's a risk. I like Nathanael. We DO share a taste for writers... I pick a title... Hmm...Flip thru...scan...hmmm...ok \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreek mythology pagans in the moonlight\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etalk like film noir romance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCopper haired women and ghosts who speak only in dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlood and gunmetal colored skies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA pipe with a medicine man behind the funeral home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe light of ancient gods \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecast upon the endless snow of childhood and forever broken cars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eYes buddy, there's reasons...More than I'd thought.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt makes sense you knew a good all night diner.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Vic Ruggiero (singer\/songwriter, The Slackers) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 124\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.29 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 15, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42729031761983,"sku":"9781952411229","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/2e89c1a04c3c9db9d275bdb168979f72.webp?v=1765120706","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/beggars-songbook-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}