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The colours of Old Glory, the American flag, become disjointed as the flag itself is blown away, a distress signal even more extreme than its being flown upside down. The variation, the breaking up of syntax, strikes at the heart of American ritual / the American dream. Sure the deadĭon’t undress and swim in their bleeding. Everything fits.įor you? O say you see it too. Variation: soaks down dandelion, marigold
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Cyrus & the Bardo, a sonnet sequence that falls just short of being a crown of sonnets, Nardone proceeds by working within the limits of this strict form, but by the ninth sonnet, a drastic shift, a sonic quaking, has occurred. In “O, Or Plains, Pennsylvania,” a re-titling of Nardone’s chapbook, O.
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This, despite the fact that The Ritualites is partially based on site-specific recordings across Canada, perhaps because Nardone originally hails from rural Pennsylvania. The thematic and geographic genesis of the book interrogates the quasi-religious nature of American ritual and its civic mythologies, for instance in the symbolic force of the flag, the anthem, the atomic bomb, militarism, etc. Dubbed on the dust jacket as “a book-length poem on the sonic topography of North America,” Michael Nardone’s debut full-length book of poetry, The Ritualites, published by Book*hug, follows the publication of excerpts of the book in other iterations.