Rich Follett has recently returned to writing poetry after a
thirty-year hiatus. He lives in the sacred and timeless Shenandoah
Valley of Virginia, where he joyfully teaches English and Theatre
Arts for high school students. His poems have appeared in numerous
contemporary journals and e-zines including "BlazeVox, Paraphilia,
Exercise Bowler, Calliope Nerve, Sugar Mule, Four Branches Press
"and "Counterexample Poetics," for which he is a Featured Artist.
He is the co-author of "Responsorials" (with Constance Stadler).
Most recently, his haiku/photo combination "Aurora's Adieu"
received first place honors in the first "international iPoetry
Poe-Tography Competition."
Reviews
As a survivor, it removed that barrier in my heart that kept me
from seeing men as my brothers in a shared legacy. As a poet,
Follett, reminds me of what we are meant to do. "I'm following you,
brother, and I'm listening."
- Lisa Alvarado, poet, novelist, author of
"Raw Silk Suture" and "Sister Chicas"
This is a poetry of conclusions, not interrogation. While the
fashionable Mei-mei Berssenbrugge writes a long line so the reader
cannot keep the whole line in his mind, Rich Follett terminally
shortens his and thus becomes accessible.
- Duane Locke, author of 21 books of poetry
and recipient of "The Edna St. Vincent Millay Prize, The Charles
Agnoff Award," and "The Poetry Society of America s Walt Whitman
Award"
As a poet, Rich Follett is a chronological genius. In this, his
collection of poems, "Silence, Inhabited," Follett himself
self-summarizes these poems in a word: "surviving"
- Felino A. Soriano, author of 21
collections of poetry, including "Variant Tongues of the
Conjunctive Application"
Follett shatters the silence, without losing any of that
expressiveness or wonder. Following a phoenix paradigm, Follett
constructs flawless monuments to sound from the beautiful, bursting
bones of the ruins he rises from; the result is an epic symphony
heavy on emphatic truth and refreshingly bereft of the gossamer
falsehoods that often compromise such bright flights.
-William Crawford, author of "Fire in the
Marrow" and "Pushcart Prize "nominee.
A stunningly deep dive into the psychological scar tissue of
abuse. A soldiering in the cause of self preservation and
reclamation. Warrior brave, purely painful and full of victory.
Abuse has its most profound adverse emotional impact when left to
fester deep in the soul's soil. This collection of poetry is an
outline for the redemption of victims of abuse to the ends of going
in as fully as the Word can go, and digging it out.
- Dan Kellett, poet, spoken word artist and
track producer, music reviewer and radio show host
For me, Rich Follett is everything a poet should be, bold in
words, thoughts and honesty; skillful and artistic yet so
accessible. The challenge he takes on here is brave beyond words.
He explores and defeats the abuse he has suffered and emerges
stronger, as does anyone who reads these stunning poems.
- Si Philbrook, poet, published in several
journals including "Poetry" (UK)
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