mudtrombones knotted in the spill by Neil Flory
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“Neil Flory writes to put disorder into order, strenuously using language that mirrors the thought processes of the mind: innovative punctuation; non-linear progression of ideas and images; linking and enjambment of words, lines, and immediate syntactical constituents; controlling and mixed metaphors, obliteration of the lines between poetry and prose and music. These are poems about authentic and unvarnished truth. This bizarrely, beautifully conceived and executed work will reward the patient reader with glimpses of otherwise unavailable knowledge and possibly perceptions of silver whisperings in the night.”
Thomas Penn Johnson
author of “If Rainbows Promise Not In Vain”
Review by Karen J. Weyant on Otoliths, Issue Seventy, Southern Winter
Today’s poetry is often defined by the line and the image; yet, too often reviews of poetry collections focus on the latter. How does the poet use images to tell a story or convey a feeling? How does the poet avoid abstract words? How does the poet use lively, yet unique imagery to avoid using cliches? Certainly, all of these are important questions to answer, yet little attention is given to the idea of the poetic line and its power in a poem. Luckily for the reader, Neil Flory, in his debut collection, mudtrombones knotted in the spill, masters both the poetic line and the art of the image in a mosaic, yet somewhat cynical, view of the world.
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Interview with Neil Flory on WRFA Radio
Writer and musician Neil Flory joined WRFAs Anthony Merchant to discuss his new collection of poems called Mudtrombones Knotted in the Spill, the roles that music and poetry have played in Neil’s life, working with Arteidolia Press, if all of Neil’s creativity stems from the same place and much more
National Poetry Event at SUNY JCC with Neil Flory
Review in the Olean Times Herald
“Neil Flory, SUNY Jamestown Community College associate professor and coordinator of music, had a book of his poems, titled “mudtrombones knotted in the spill,” published by New York publisher Arteidolia Press in February.
“Throughout this collection of 56 poems and prose poems, Flory’s writing takes the form of a stream-of-consciousness that calls attention to the way language inserts itself, like an unruly poltergeist in a room, into the flow of thought binding us to, and separating us from, the world around us,” wrote Daniel Barbiero, a noted musician, composer and writer.
Flory is also a published composer whose music has been performed across the United States and in Europe, South America, Asia, and Australia, including performances at major conferences in the U.S. and abroad. His music appears on recordings from the Summit, Mark, and Emeritus record labels.”
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REVIEW IN Word For/Word: a journal for new writing
Christopher Munde: “a landscape of flesh and pure determination”
“In this book, apprehension only arrives in the wake of ruin: The speaker careens, from the very start, straight through the rippling tension of torn encounters and earth, though, even then, it’s clear the destination will be somewhere other than chaos… This plunge toward consonance makes mudtrombones knotted in the spill an impressive debut. The role of dissonance in both form and content is always tempered with genuine insight, and leads one, in this rare case in poetry of such kinetic energy, toward cohesion, and a quiet that weighs and expands.”
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REVIEW IN periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics
“Language, arguably, realizes its potential to be purely poetic when it frees itself from its utilitarian mandate to communicate the mundane — when it swerves to avoid what André Breton memorably called “the erosion and discoloration that result from its use for basic exchange”-—and instead maps its way through territories whose contours are shaped by the non-utilitarian forces of affect, imagination, speculation, and sound- and shape-based improvisation.”
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mudtrombones knotted in the spill by Neil Flory
ISBN: 978-1-7369983-7-3
Published: February 2023
84 pages
$14
For decades, Neil Flory has been discovering poems in every aspect of life and in every environment of living. Recently, his work has appeared in Fleas on the Dog, Down in the Dirt, Superpresent, Sleet, and other journals. Flory is also a published composer of concert music, a college music professor, and a pianist whose greatest enthusiasm lies in the art of improvisation in live recital settings. He lives among the wooded hills and lakeshores of western New York State with his wife, fiction writer and poet Elaine Flory, and Ellie, their flamboyant three-legged cat.
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