Description
- Kind: Perfectbound
- Pages: 238
- Language: English
- Date Published: June 1, 2025
- ISBN 978-1-962847-25-4
Praise
from Peter O’Leary, Chicago, July 15, ‘25 :
Dear Ralph, It was kind of you to send me a copy of SPRUNGS und Alles (love the title!), whose energy and wit and intelligence is everywhere manifest page after page. The work is sui generis, a genre unto itself, from the lyrics to the conversations to the collages. And you make Cincinnati seem like the place to be ! I salute you there from afar.
With all good wishes, Peter
from Michael Heller, NYC, June 9, ’25 :
Dear Ralph, What a bomb blast of a book ! The poems, the dialogues, especially with Tyrone ! And the beauty and mysteriousness of the art work, inside and out. You transpierce a few generations, the wit and humor – a kind of glue. Maybe not the ages of Many, but a lot of my ages !
Many, many thanks
from Steve Winhusen, Cinci, May 25, ’25 :
I am in possession of Sprungs and Alles. Just enough time to glance through, but I’m enjoying the collages, the pictures, the memoire, and the poetry. I really like how the rhythm of the images matches the sensibility of the poetry. The eye and ear simultaneously engaged is compelling. I don’t think it is my imagination that you manage to capture a lot of the rhythm from your delivery translated into print. Word choice and the form you able to give it on the page work in harmony ( or raucous cacophony). That said, I do appreciate your sense of the well-said “memor-actualization”. I was glad to see the Farewellia to Ty and your correspondence included. Alles said, the third volume — the whole trilogy — is a trove of inspiration worth opening again and again. But I must know about the figure on the title page: is that tie and jacket torso William Carlos Williams’ ?
Author
RALPH LA CHARITY. . .currently bills himself as a poet in private practice. The cover collage on his earlier Dos Madres book, litanies said handedly, and the cover collage on the next of his Dos Madres imprints, BLOOD VERTIGO, give the lie : those two books are the first two volumes of a three-book project. This book in hand, SPRUNGS und Alles, constitutes the concluding entry of a trilogy he considers to be his defense of Open Poetry readings:
“ … there is a far-end, high protein end to the curve, where the best & most fertile open poetry readings occur – in such readings, the gulf between audience & readers gets messed with because there is not much difference between the two … not only do the two poles intersect/interweave, but all the best open poetry readings have more than one round of readers reading on offer – the cumulative final effect has to do with volunteer poets also reacting to what they’ve been hearing from other volunteer poets – it’s the perdurable call & response element, which is always threatening to make its appearance at open readings. Open poetry readings encode possibilities that are expansive rather than restrictive.”
the o’ both
he’s a player’s
known immediately
to be so by
other players & the way
they know’s he plays
what he hears whatever
he hears & he hears out
o’ both sides o’ both
ears & sits
cocked on the other
side of a fence what’s
got more sides’n
four by far
translation :
players stir the o’ both
w/four by fars o’ heard
