Vaudeville in the Dark
R. M. Ryan, 2010, Louisiana State Univ Press, 68 pages, trade paperback.
Signed and personalized copy, very good condition, pages clean and bright, binding tight, cover clean.
I was lucky enough to have Rick Ryan read from this delightful book at my store. For six years, he was the lyricist for the northern California rock-and-roll band The Thugz. A couple of the band members joined him that evening as musical backup for his reading. Wonderful, special evening. -Susan
Vaudeville in the Dark is R. M. Ryan's dance to the music of our times, his search for salvation in poetry. Sometimes funny, sometimes somber, the world of Vaudeville in the Dark ranges from an elegy on the death of a miner in Sago, West Virginia, to a meditation on the life of Rembrandt. Tony the Tiger, Glenn Gould, Chaucer---each has a moment as Ryan makes his way across the stage of our lives. He creates a world both frightening and funny as we -- songsters all -- long for a "heart dissolved in melody."
R. M. Ryan, 2010, Louisiana State Univ Press, 68 pages, trade paperback.
Signed and personalized copy, very good condition, pages clean and bright, binding tight, cover clean.
I was lucky enough to have Rick Ryan read from this delightful book at my store. For six years, he was the lyricist for the northern California rock-and-roll band The Thugz. A couple of the band members joined him that evening as musical backup for his reading. Wonderful, special evening. -Susan
Vaudeville in the Dark is R. M. Ryan's dance to the music of our times, his search for salvation in poetry. Sometimes funny, sometimes somber, the world of Vaudeville in the Dark ranges from an elegy on the death of a miner in Sago, West Virginia, to a meditation on the life of Rembrandt. Tony the Tiger, Glenn Gould, Chaucer---each has a moment as Ryan makes his way across the stage of our lives. He creates a world both frightening and funny as we -- songsters all -- long for a "heart dissolved in melody."
R. M. Ryan, 2010, Louisiana State Univ Press, 68 pages, trade paperback.
Signed and personalized copy, very good condition, pages clean and bright, binding tight, cover clean.
I was lucky enough to have Rick Ryan read from this delightful book at my store. For six years, he was the lyricist for the northern California rock-and-roll band The Thugz. A couple of the band members joined him that evening as musical backup for his reading. Wonderful, special evening. -Susan
Vaudeville in the Dark is R. M. Ryan's dance to the music of our times, his search for salvation in poetry. Sometimes funny, sometimes somber, the world of Vaudeville in the Dark ranges from an elegy on the death of a miner in Sago, West Virginia, to a meditation on the life of Rembrandt. Tony the Tiger, Glenn Gould, Chaucer---each has a moment as Ryan makes his way across the stage of our lives. He creates a world both frightening and funny as we -- songsters all -- long for a "heart dissolved in melody."