Libertine Love Songs, A Collection of Poesy, Prosody, and Prose

This is a collection of poesy, prosody, and prose divided into six chapters. The first two chapters are basically poems and short narratives of limerence, loss and longing, death and redemption, scandalous acts and the search for fulfillment. Chapters three through six are short stories. Love once again is a prevailing theme, the sixth chapter has elements of the occult.Ronny Knape's Libertine Love Songs is a collection of poetry and prose in which the writing acts as palimpsests that overlay the occult plots of morality plays, journeys, quests, and Jungian archetypes all framed within idiom and phrasing of a Texas tale. Knape's style is of a 17th century moralist like John Bunyan having spent a stint in Aleister Crowley's company and then being dumped into the brain of a working-class Texan obligated to try to explain his journey to his family and neighbors. In short, there's a huge dose of magical realism as the abstractions and the day-to-day experiences of characters in Texas, Mexico, and a Lone Star imagination jostle around. Worth a read for the many places where this combination works. Tar Heel Dem