Anarchy for a Rainy Day

By Valery Oisteanu

WARNING EXPLOSIVE KEEP AWAY FROM SAFE ACADEMIC WRITING CUBICLE OFFICES AND C.I.A. POETRY WORKSHOPS Charles Plymell, poet, novelist, publisher Cherry Valley Edition To read Valery Oisteanu is to enter into yourself and emerge with a vocabulary you never knew existed. To read him is to regret the wasted life you lead before you read him. Judith Malina, poet, playwright, actress, activist Valery Oisteanu, king/queen/jack of all dada/east village "Absurdistan" - gallops on the hobbyhorse of our blasted times; and the poems here echo the blasts. Poems point to and mock the "Unending killing cycles," while surreal images abound and become visual realities. Dada is reincarnated in Oisteanu's troubling vision where "Darkness evaporates into more darkness." Despite the hi-jinks, the ebullient sexuality, dadaistic lust, there's a deep abiding sadness here - over deaths (see especially "Mostly Unavailable") and universal madness: poetry "from the forbidden dreams of the Asylum." Mid-way into the book he cries - "Freedom is still a foreign word," well, not here, not in the voice of Valery Oisteanu. Barry Wallenstein, poet Geologists have labeled our age the Anthropocene because man has become the most powerful force on earth even as he heads towards extinction, surrounded by cliches and useless artifacts. Valery Oisteanu knows this, and like a surreal Atlas astride the rubble, he rails against the Absurd, but it is a warning sheathed in love. Anarchy for a Rainy Day is a book of poems by a romantic. Read this book, and then keep it close; it is a life preserver. Ron Kolm, author of "Suburban Ambush" and the Editor of the Evergreen Review"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194155055X
• ISBN13: 9781941550557
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.0"