Resistance Is a Blue Spanish Guitar

George Wallace is writer in residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace editor of Poetrybay and author of 37 previous collections of poetry including Smashing Rock and Straight As Razors (Blue Light Press 2017). Based in the New York City performance scene he teaches at Pace University in Manhattan and travels internationally to conduct readings and present his work. Recent awards and honors include: Corona doro (Korca Literary Festival AB) 2019; Orpheus Prize (Orpheus Festival BG) 2018; Alexander the Great Gold Medal (UNESCO-Salamis GR) 2018; Centro Studii Archivio dOccidente Award (CSAO It) 2018; Naim Frasheri Prize and Festival Laureate (Ditet e Naimit Festival MK) 2017; Blue Light Book Award 2017; Laureate National Beat Poetry Festival 2015-16. George Wallaces bop prosody runs rhythms deep. His lines splash like the nature of color and noise he feels so at one with. This is the poetry of a country born to be wild and a heart rapacious and spellbound; writing that is modern mindful and as old as the native cornstalks flashing by the highways.- Thurston Moore Sonic YouthIn Resistance Is a Blue Spanish Guitar George Wallace shows us with lines lyrical and wise how intricate the gearworks of our humanity truly are. There is a power of place and language in these poems. Metaphors that bedazzle and inform. There is holy text here. A tumbling word-jazz. And there is nothing less than the insistent illuminating quintessence of our living in the offering.-- Robert Scotellaro author of What Are The Chances? and Bad MotelPoetry that John and Carol Steinbeck Carl Sandburg Willa Cather William Faulkner and Walt Whitman could read and either admire or quarrel over with Garcia-Lorca. George Wallace takes to the American highway and sings.A manifesto beneath. Poems on top(Takes the heart of a radical)The seductions of a bare bulb swinging- Scott Hightower author of Hontenares Tartessos and Self-Evident