08/21/2025
Coming this fall from Ronsdale Press! Richard-Yves Sitoski's evocative, unsettling new poetry collection A Current through the Flesh
"Dad’s attitude to popular music led to some other interesting situations. As a middle-school rebel, I sought ways to get on his nerves, and succeeded beyond my wildest dreams by buying the heaviest, hardest, most headlong and flat-out intense album in rock-and-roll history: Supertramp’s Breakfast in America. To Dad, Rick, Roger, and the boys were just about the most over-the-top outfit since the S*x Pistols. He would get apoplectic on the subject, convinced that this kind of music was literally ruining my mind. so much so that during one of our many flights from his drunkenness, he hid all my albums on me, stuffing them in the back of my closet where I’d be out of range of their pernicious influence."
Poet and spoken-word artist Richard-Yves Sitoski shares a playlist to accompany his new collection A CURRENT THROUH THE FLESH (Ronsdale Press) and the personal history behind each track.
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