Book Launch: Ralph Adamo's All Fall Down

Name: Book Launch: Ralph Adamo's All Fall Down
Start: 2024-10-20T16:00:00-05:00
Location: The Maple Leaf Bar

Schedule

Sun Oct 20 2024 at 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Maple Leaf Bar | New Orleans, LA

Please join us at The Leaf for a reading by Ralph Adamo to launch his new collection of poems, All Fall Down. There will be an open mic afterwards.
In his 10th collection, composed during a time of disruption and conflict, Ralph Adamo explores humanity itself by focusing our hardest questions and most troubling understandings through his own experience, memory and imagination. He also addresses or invokes a myriad of you’s to broaden this investigation. While the poems are ambitious, the words they are cast in remain plainly conversational, with occasional bursts of more exotic and lyrical language. And while the consciousness of death and its propulsive influence on our lives informs many of them, livelier intentions appear as well, in poems that search out the mysteries behind the simplest aspects of our daily experiences. The moon is here, the dog, the cats, the beloveds, the grind, the ecstasies, and the promises and dreams that extend our lives into the future. Ultimately, the poems reflect a darkness in which hope might still prevail. Adamo suggests these poems inhabit a new category, for readers who want such classifications. He writes, ‘Post-confessional poetry, which mine seems to be, isn’t about a whole life or sustained feelings or any stable series of moments. Rather it carries the shards of thought — feelings that might vanish as quickly as they appear, passing fragments of brief durations captured imperfectly in language as if somehow permanent.’