Heard–Hoard - Atsuro Riley

Recognized for his “wildly original†poetry and his “uncanny and unparalleled ability to blend lyric and narrative,†Atsuro Riley deepens here his uncommon mastery and tang.  In Heard-Hoard, Riley has “razor-exacted†and “raw-wired†an absorbing new sequence of poems, a vivid weavework rendering an American place and its people. At once an album of tales, a portrait gallery, and a soundscape; an “inscritched†dirt-mural and hymnbook, Heard-Hoard encompasses a chorus of voices shot through with (mostly human) histories and mysteries, their “old appetites as chronic as tides.â€Â  From the crackling story-man calling us together in the primal circle to Tammy figuring “time and time that yonder oak,†this collection is a profound evocation of lives and loss and lore.