Harold Rhenisch

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Living
         Will, 2005

         
         
 The sonnets of
         William Shakespeare translated into English. This is a book
         of passion, eroticism, and love.

         
         
by turns
         fabulous, poignant, tragik, full uv sly humours n laff out
         lowd passages, thees updatings uv the brillyant sonnets ar
         themselvs brillyant, a wunderful xciting reed, deeplee
         moovin, provokativ n a joy 2 xperiens. i highleee recommend
         ths latest magikulee xecutid work uv Harold
         Rhenisch.
         bill
         bissett

         
         
"Sonnet
         Pissonit." Mr. Rhenisch, whose ancestors also translated
         Shakespeare, agrees. Shakey loved good thrust and parry,
         actors handy with codpiece and speech, and Rhenisch is an
         expert swordsman. Methinks the dark lady is unmasked at
         last. Let the play begin.
         Linda
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Free
         Will, 2004

         
         
 

         
         
The ten thousand monkeys locked in
         a room with 10,000 typewriters, who have been trying to
         write Hamlet since, well, like forever, have finally done
         it.

         
         
They also tried their hand at Lear,
         and Othello, and Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. Most of the
         time it is the women who get the main parts.

         
         
This romp through theatre and the
         traditions of poetry, theatrically staged and sung, began
         when I played Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1975.
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Fusion,
         2000

         
         

         
         
Elegies, metaphysics, spells.
         Combining Wiccan magic subatomic physics, Western and
         Eastern spirituality, and a strong sense of the earth, these
         poems lay out the foundation of Rhenisch's world view.
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The
         Blue Mouth of Morning, 2000

         
         

         
         
Mythic poetry with a twist. Elegies
         for Charles Lillard and Robin Skelton, including a poem
         first read at Skelton's Memorial service in 1997, and a
         series of poems set in Pound's city of Dioce, "whose
         terraces are the color of stars". next

      		
      
         

      		
      
         

      		
   



 

   

      
         

      		
      
         
Taking
         the Breath Away, 1998

         
         

         
         
Mythic, lyric, and occasional
         Poetry. Explorations of a new poetic language for the new
         century, including Van Gogh's vision of the Canadians as a
         blizzard of falling snow. next

      		
      
         

      		
      
         

      		
   









   

      
         

      		
      
         
Iodine,
         1995

         
         

         
         
Satiric and Elegaic Poetry.
         Manifestations of Christ in our materialistic world. A romp.
         At times the true story of "Dogman", who for 16 years lived
         like a tenth century saint with 30 dogs on Fairview
         Mountain. The manifestations include Leonard Cohen and
         Elvis. next

      		
      
         

      		
      
         

      		
   









   

      
         

      		
      
         
Dancing
         With My Daughter, 1993

         
         

         
         
Lyric and narrative poetry. Art,
         Land, Memory, Love. The culmination of Harold Rhenisch's
         explorations of land, place, and land-based culture.
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A
         Delicate Fire, 1989

         
         

         
         
Lyric, narrative, and comic poetry,
         including the long Zen poem, "The Koan".
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Eleusis,
         1985

         
         

         
         
Mythic and dionysiac poetry, as
         well as the bittersweet "M.L.S.", a portrait of two years
         spent in the gold-mining town of Hedley. Once fantastically
         rich, Hedley now lies at the bottom of the socio-economic
         heap. next

      		
      
         

      		
      
         

      		
   









   

      
         

      		
      
         
Winter,
         1982

         
         

         
         
Lyric poetry. The haunting presence
         of an ancient land.

      		
      
         

      		
      
         

      		
   



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