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Today's poem is "Words as Wind, and Wind"
from In Light Wind Light Light

Omnidawn

Bin Ramke grew up in Texas and Louisiana, lives now in Colorado with Linda and Nic and Ollie.

Other poems by Bin Ramke in Verse Daily:
June 12, 2009:   "Treatment Options" "Inside, the palm and fingers..."
November 30, 2002:  49 Views of Childhood "But he was a quiet child, I was, he was never..."

Books by Bin Ramke:

Other poems on the web by Bin Ramke:
Fourteen poems
Eigth poems
Three poems
Two poems
Eigth poems

Bin Ramke According to Wikipedia.

About In Light Wind Light Light:

"Words are mechanical—they have functions—and sentences are machines. In Light Wind Light Light, Bin Ramke seems intent on transcending the notion of 'single use'—his poems expand fractically, rhizomatically, in multiple dimensions and qualities. I have long thought of him as one of those poets working in the lyric mode who mistrusts that tendency of the lyric to tie off all its loose ends; in Ramke's book the 'lyric' is music—its desire is not to fix a position but to echo, to resound. Rather than argument, invitation and engagement are the rhetoric in play."
—Kazim Ali

"Ardent and indelible, spare as the bones of a bird, these artifacts of an acute sensibility are sparked by the resurgent memories of infancy: forest and bees, river and fish, storm and rain, puddle and sky—all this of no consequence; all this of vital significance. I was the child there watching."
—Rikki Ducornet

"These poems contain the curves, ratios, relations, laws, and forces that describe existence and bind thing to thing, the fact of which, we might say, constitutes reality: self to word, law to light or sun or moon, wind to breath, not just physically but also through the furthering force of metaphor. In this world, all surfaces are in intimate communication, inviting us to '[walk] out to be there breathless' amidst its glorious connections. Ramke's gift, given to the reader again and again, is in how he traces the fragility and glow of living movement, like gold coursing through thought."
—Eleni Sikelianos



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