PRAISE FOR "BECOMING STRANGER"
“[The opening poem] “Offerings in Originarity” is deeply thought, a poem that lingers at intersections between birth, before-birth, music, arrival, and a darkness that is permeable but total.”
—Fanny Howe
“George Oppen once wrote, “all things/speak if they speak the estranged.” In Eliot Cardinaux’s haunting poems, the estranged is spoken as only it can be – with bent syntax, lucid rhythms, and a fleeting purchase on redemption. Sorrow underwrites these intimate meditations on longing, futility, and a fugitive grace that betimes can rescue one who is “signaling the void.” These are poems lit by the fuse of an intense inner agon, an agon that leads to a “sacred vowel” by which to “become human again” is also “becoming stranger.””
—Patrick Pritchett
“These are poems made up of silences and the spaces between silences, which happen to be words. Deeply-felt, painfully-chosen, just-enough words. Words that say as much about themselves as they do about the silences they separate. Eliot Cardinaux knows a thing or two about the music of such silences and “the bustle of standing/still” and a whole lot else.”
—Denver Butson
pain is a form of violence prone to happiness –
Our Hearts as Thieves: pain is a form of violence prone to happiness (CD)
Our Hearts as Thieves
$10 USD
Eliot Cardinaux & Sean Ali: Apparitions (Chapbook)
$12 USD
Pavane –
Eliot Cardinaux & Gary Fieldman: Pavane (Limited Edition CD)
Eliot Cardinaux & Gary Fieldman
$10 USD
Eliot Cardinaux: Caprice (chapbook)
$12 USD
Eliot Cardinaux: The Margins Weep Slow Roses (chapbook)
$12 USD
Eliot Cardinaux: Triptych (3 chapbooks)
$30 USD
Eliot Cardinaux - Narratives of the Strata (chapbook)
$12 USD
Out of Our Systems –
Limited Edition CD
Eliot Cardinaux / Will McEvoy / Max Goldman
$12 USD
Eliot Cardinaux "Said Series" Limited Edition Chapbook
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Deleted Scene –
Gary Fieldman: Deleted Scene (Limited Edition CD)
Gary Fieldman
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Eliot Cardinaux - Meridians of the Overlooked (Compositions 2009-2019) - Sheet Music Booklet
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For Who Is King –
For Who is King Limited Edition CD
Eliot Cardinaux and Caleb Schmale
$10 USD
Odysseus Alone –
Odysseus Alone - Limited Edition CD
Eliot Cardinaux/Kresten Osgood/Thomas Morgan
$10 USD
What the Wildflower Witnessed –
Our Hearts as Thieves: What the Wildflower Witnessed Limited Edition Double CD
Our Hearts as Thieves
$15 USD
A Living Past –
Eliot Cardinaux: A Living Past - Limited Edition CD
Eliot Cardinaux
$10 USD
Autolysis –
Asger Thomsen: Autolysis 12" Vinyl
Asger Thomsen
$24 USD
take me by the hand of darkness –
take me by the hand of darkness (CD)
Eliot Cardinaux / Will McEvoy / Max Goldman
$10 USD
Sweet Beyond Witness –
Eliot Cardinaux: Sweet Beyond Witness (CD)
Eliot Cardinaux
$10 USD
Six Feet on Solid Ground –
Magpie: Six Feet on Solid Ground (CD)
Magpie
$10 USD
The Bodily Press Amherst, Massachusetts
The Bodily Press is an independent poetry press & record label founded by poet/pianist Eliot Cardinaux. Mostly an avenue for its founder's own work, the press features a catalogue of original work in the fields of both lyric poetry & improvised music.
