Manything

MANYTHING is the 21st book of poetry by Portland post-Beat poet dan raphael, featuring 65 new and wild poems."Wildly political, shamanistically apolitical, this is a poet for whom '...spontaneity is quicker than most defenses ... ' This is a bard who writes poems that are '...teeth biting through wire with persistent questions.' dan raphael's poems - true children of the oral tradition - clamor to be heard." - Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita"raphael is one of the few poets since Whitman to have such a complete delight in the multiplicity of the world. His integration of the objects of man's making with the wildness of nature is liberating. Manything is a vision, one that moves us beyond our complacency, making us less sure that the world we navigate daily is what we think it is. Like Louis Aragon in Paysan de Paris, Raphael awakens us to the ecstatic possibility that we might fall right through the sidewalk." - Lawrence Smith, editor of Caliban"dan raphael is frequently the seer in the ordinary, the visionary peering into the illusion to reveal what is actually happening behind the glass. What he reveals is the stuff of fathomless mystery ornamented with beautifully articulated imagery. He captures the mind and senses and shifts them so far beyond their scope that one begins to taste the mystery personally. It is the gift of all masters of the art to transform the world from something mundane into something sacred calling us further on. Poem after poem, raphael makes it a journey worth taking." - Jake Berry, author of Cyclones in High Northern Latitudes