Hymns
Randy Roark
Dead Metaphor Press 2000
paperback
26 pages
1-880743-15-9
$9.95book design by Amy Hayes
including 12 photographs by Kai SibleySpecial limited edition of 26, signed by Amy Hayes, Kai Sibley,
and Randy Roark available for $20.00
"Hymns" is so wonderful and so closely kin to what I'm constantly concentrated on now
in a long film called "Love Song"-the actual sense of solidity of what's pulled from the
mind in memory and imagination. And this declaration-like Michael McClure-that Plato and Rumi's vision is true, somehow. The book is so sexy without being at all salacious. And the photographs are marvelous. These images are really quite amazing. I'm just astonished. It's the poem I'm hoping to achieve with "Love Song." It'll take a year before I can finish my film, but I have these "Hymns"
to take along with me."--Stan Brakhage"Roark's humanness is continually revitalized in his own union with the feminine, and his devotion to revitalizing the humanness of those around him through his writing is as sincere as any writer I know." - Joe Richey
