Ray DiPalma
MOTION OF THE CYPHER
by Ray DiPalma
"In Motion of the Cypher Ray DiPalma's glyphic, synaesthetic formulations transport us quickly to the nether regions of life and the poetic imagination where "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow/Still only brings us to Wednesday" and ".... vicious disclosures about criteria/... form an entire government out of amnesiacs." Sometimes angry, always truthful, these poems unite exquisite musicality with a philosophically incisive eye, a rare combination."- Nick Piombino
RAIK
by Ray DiPalma
"Ray DiPalma's RAIK, despite the compelling visual objectiveness of the poems, is essentially about conflict and disruption. The spatial imapct of the formal structures is immediately apparent; they give these poems a certain stability."
- Lyn Hejinian