A Tune In a Blind Man's Ears

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Carved from the root of Appalachian English and enriched by the dust and divinity of the rural South Christopher Turpin's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Tune in a Blind Man's Ears</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> navigates us through a patchwork quilt of memory mourning and mendacity creating a coiled copperhead baring its language fangs at the haunted tongues of generations past. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Stomping with the same cadence as a revival tent these oral intimate and unshaken poems give reverence to the ragged sparse and weathered among us</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the tradition of William Faulkner and Sterling Brown readers will find in Christopher Ryan Turpin a kindred truth-teller capable of lyrical grit and divine tenderness. This small collection offers itself as testament to our language's ability to cremate and resurrect in a single song.</span></p>