Brett
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Black Sabbatical, the debut collection of poems by Brett Eugene Ralph, available now from Sarabande Books.
Male
43 years old
Kentucky
United States
Last Login: 11/9/2009
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| General | 1968-1975. Lots of people, music fans in particular, seem to think nothing happened between the summer of love and punk rock. They are sorely mistaken. I am also interested in Tibetan Buddhism, weightlifting, poetry, and owls. | | Music | Babylon Dance Band, The Birthday Party, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, James Brown, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Alice Cooper, Skeeter Davis, The Dicks, Die Kreuzen, Dion, Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show, Bob Dylan, Endtables, Everly Brothers, Freddy Fender, Freakwater, Gang of Four, Bobbie Gentry, Humble Pie, Iron Maiden, Jackson 5, Skip James, Waylon Jennings, The Left Banke, Loretta Lynn, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Curtis Mayfield, MC5, Melanie, Joni Mitchell, Dolly Parton, Ramones, Charlie Rich, The Rolling Stones, Bob Seger, Silver Jews, The Sir Douglas Quintet, Sly and The Family Stone, The Stooges, Thin Lizzy, Irma Thomas, Void, Tony Joe White, Wire, Neil Young, and the late, great Sammi Smith. | | Movies | Alice in the Cities, The Bad News Bears, Buster and Billie, Cisco Pike, Electra Glide in Blue, Fast Times at Ridgement High, Foxes, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Gummo, Heartworn Highways, The Hired Hand, Husbands, The Idiots, Kings of the Road, Out of the Blue, Over the Edge, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Play It As It Lays, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Stroczek, Two-Lane Blacktop, The White Dawn, The Wild Bunch. | | Television | Pro football, University of Louisville sports, Sanford and Son, The Wire, and Project Runway. | | Books | Prose: Knut Hamsun, Mary Gaitskill, Nikos Kazantzakis, Carson McCullers, Oakley Hall's 'Warlock', Cormac McCarthy, Charles Portis, Hubert Selby Jr., John Steinbeck, Charles Willeford. Poetry: Josh Bell, David Berman, Paul Celan, Federico Garcia Lorca, Tony Hoagland, Robinson Jeffers, Denis Johnson, D.H. Lawrence, Jeffrey McDaniel, W.S. Merwin, Rainer Maria Rilke, Christopher Smart, Frank Stanford, Georg Trakl, John Wieners, Franz Wright, James Wright. | | Heroes | Muhammad Ali. |
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Brett's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Louisville, Kentucky | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Buddhist | | Zodiac Sign: | Taurus | | Smoke / Drink: | No / No | | Children: | Someday | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | Teacher |
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About me:
My first full-length poetry collection, Black Sabbatical, was just published by Sarabande books. Order a copy by clicking on this link: http://www.sarabandebooks.org/sarabande/sarabande/Authors/Brett%20Eugene%20Ralph/123541695219/
In other news, I was born on Friday the 13th and spent the better part of my youth in Louisville, Kentucky, playing football and singing in punk rock bands like Malignant Growth, Fading Out, and Rising Shotgun. I attended college in Indiana, studied creative writing at UMASS-Amherst, and spent four months in the Himalayas of northern India.
Sometime in the 1990's, I started coming up with story-songs in the country tradition--though I'd always taken a narrative approach to songwriting. When Rising Shotgun broke up in 2002, I began to play solo shows, sometimes backed by a few friends. In the mid-2000's, I recorded ten songs at Rove Studio in Shelbyville, Kentucky, with Paul Oldham at the board. By the time we were done, the record featured contributions by 21 singers and players besides myself, an all-star cast of aging punks, indie royalty, and fringe country gunslingers. I call the completed project Brett Eugene Ralph's Kentucky Chrome Revue--you can listen to some songs and even see some live footage of the band in action by clicking on the band's page in my top friends.
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Who I'd like to meet:
A record mogul who recognizes genius when s/he hears it.
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