The Ritualites

By Michael Nardone

The Ritualites is Michael Nardone's book-length poem–the first in a series of planned works–on the sonic topography of North America.

Composed at sites all across the continent—from Far Rockaway to the Olympic Peninsula, Great Bear Lake to the Gulf of California—the book documents the poet’s listening amid our public exchanges, mediated ambiances, and itinerant intimacies. The Ritualites is a series of linguistic rituals that shift, page to page, through a range of forms and genres—a rhapsodic text for occasional singing and a best-selling thriller, a self-help guide and sabotage manual, a score for solo performance and a cacophony of voices.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bookhug Press
• Release date: Dec 4, 2018
• ISBN: 9781771664578