Reviewed: 1-2-2021 ...internationally performing and leading American poet... |
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Ray McNiece |
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Poetry Books by Ray McNiece |
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Ray's latest release... Our
Way of Life
What others have to say on Ray... "...a born poet and a born performer..."
"Make no mistake, Ray McNiece is a patriot in the truest sense of the
word. He has America coursing through his veins, and his poems are an
open highway with a cool Midwestern wind blowing through them.
'Our Way of Life' is a cathartic journey, taking you from
meditations on the atrocious war in Iraq to homages to the nation's
great living poets, and ending in the nooks and crannies of a country
that, despite the heartache found permeating everything, is still alive,
vital and staggeringly beautiful in ways that are breathtaking to
behold."
“Where would we be without the voice of Ray McNiece? Who else would sing
of the migrations from Appalachia to Ohio, dance the Slovenian Polka,
wail the blues for broken New Orleans, mourn the destruction of our last
pristine land, rail against the corruption of corporate government, ache
for the victims of torture and war, then croon love songs to Cleveland?
Who else would connect us with what makes us human? Ray McNiece is our
Whitman, our bard, our bodhisattva, our conscience.”
"It's not enough for an artist to be angry. He also has to be good. And
Ray McNiece is good and angry in these poems (Our Way of Life)
that burn as hot and bright as the extinct blast furnaces of Ohio once
did. Whitman, whose ghost is everywhere in these lines, called America
"the greatest poem." And I am happy that Ray McNiece's passionate,
relentless voice will not stop until he has made us understand how much
we have lost."
It is a poet’s job to tell the truth. McNiece strips away the multiple
coats of yellowing varnish in Our Way of Life laying bare
a distressed yet solidly built realism. Rather than the usual pop
cynicism - these poems embrace an idealism of what should and could be
while invoking the language of a poet’s poet. Like a canary in a coal
mine he beckons us to come above ground and breathe deep – before it is
too late. Available for purchase direct from the author on this website. $15.00, shipping & handling. Educators: If you are an educator, English or poetry professor, teacher, or poetry workshop leader, you may purchase in quantity for a discount. Please feel free to comment on works directly to Ray, or to send your comments for us to post on the website. Questions or comments, contact Ray. Contact Ray [ back to top ] scroll down or back to top, or navigation at right, above or below |
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The Road
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$12.00, shipping & handling.
Educators: If you are an educator, English or poetry professor, teacher, or poetry workshop leader, you may purchase in quantity for a discount. Please feel free to comment on works directly to Ray, or to send your comments for us to post on the website. Questions or comments, contact Ray. Contact Ray [ back to top ] scroll down or back to top, or navigation at right, above or below
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Library of Congress mouth music Copyright, 1997, Third Edition, published by Poetry Alive! Publications,
Asheville, NC. 96 pages. $9.95, shipping & handling. Purchases direct from the author. See details
below.
Sample poem below, and with sound sample below if you have very fast connections Reviews and Comments...
"Ray McNiece is an adept reader of his own
moving, clearly inmaged poems, a skilled performer who does the English
language justice. " "McNiece smoothly blends fine writing with an
angry political conscience. His folksy but honed poems are drawn from
the heart of the working class." "A warm, wise, gracious guide through an infirm
world he teaches his leader how to love." Adjust your volume controls. Note: Best on DSL or ASDL. for slow modems, great patience...may not work on all browsers.Click [Sample]
to hear a short sample (not complete) from
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Us? Talking Across America
Published by Fractal Edge Press, Copyright 2004 by Ray McNiece, First Edition ISBN: 1-933126-10-8 New program on US? - Go to What's new, Ray? for a description not only of the program, but the book.CLICK ON THE FLAG THERE FOR A PDF: FULLER DESCRIPTION
"McNiece smoothly blends fine writing with an angry political
conscience. His folksy but honed poems are drawn from the heart of the
working class." $12.00, shipping & handling. Educators: If you are an educator, English or poetry professor, teacher, or poetry workshop leader, you may purchase in quantity for a discount. Please feel free to comment on works directly to Ray, or to send your comments for us to post on the website. Questions or comments, contact Ray. Contact Ray [ back to top ] scroll down or back to top, or navigation at right, above or below |
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DIS: Voices from a Shelter
Published by Burning River,
Collector's Editions ONLY.
In the works...DIS: Voices From A Shelter THE FINAL VERSION. For
plans and what is happening with this effort, contact Ray. More, scroll down Educators: If you are an educator, English or poetry professor, teacher, or poetry workshop leader, please feel free to comment on works directly to Ray, or to send your comments for us to post on the website. Questions or comments, contact Ray. Contact Ray [ back to top ] scroll down or back to top, or navigation at right, above or below |
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wet sand, Reviews and Comments...
$12.95, shipping & handling. Educators: If you are an educator, English or poetry professor, teacher, or poetry workshop leader, you may purchase in quantity for a discount. Please feel free to comment on works directly to Ray, or to send your comments for us to post on the website. Questions or comments, contact Ray. Contact Ray [ back to top ] scroll down or back to top, or navigation at right, above or below |
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