A whopping, perfect bound, exquisite edition

                             personally inscribed with appropriate words by The Poet Spiel.

                                                                  196 pages

                                      + a foreward by renowned poet David Chorlton

                                                   Published by March Street Press

                                         to celebrate Spiel's ten years as a writer/poet.

    And offered by March Street Press at the astonishingly generous recession-days price of only

                                                            $9

                        Because we want you to own your own!

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                                                                   The Poet Spiel

                                                                  89 W. Linden Ave

                                                               Pueblo West CO 81007

Reviewed by Kirby Congdon in Small Press Review.

"...Spiel's stance is to move us to the outer edge of it all...as he drags in the capacity of for intelligence, that awareness of knowledge of life that can look in the mirror and see the endless vista before us reflected in back of us as far as the eye can see. ... ...not an answer, or a solution, or a doctrine. It is an insight that absorbs science, history and experience, along with the compulsion to put it into words.,,"

other spiel books:

    
     "once upon a farmboy"
           Published by Madman Ink
           2008
           Poetry, 52 pp 
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David Chorlton : Renowned independent press poet/critic, about "once upon a farmboy."

"The visual indications of details remembered with clarity over the years bring vigor to these poems as well as providing the reader with the tangible reminders of objects that are ordinary in themselves yet become almost mythological in the the context of lives remembered. There is innocence both in the time recalled and in the eye of the author seeing what he saw at the time, yet the calm moments feel ominous. Something is going on, has gone on, what you see with people going about family business and going to church an' all ain't the whole story. It wasn't then and it isn't now. ... Each person's story is an individual one, not something in a one-size-fits-all mode, but the telling of the circumstances does, when it is honest, create references for others to see they are/were not alone on their experiences. In fact, none of us are isolated from the world Spiel knew and its continuing influence on America's image of itself. ... Understanding one person's journey through life is a huge step in understanding the big picture."
                                                                                     Quote from Chiron Review 
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"she : insinuations of flesh brooding"
           Published by March Street Press
                 2008           
           Poetry, 36 pp
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Don Winter: Poet, Editor, Publisher, Critic about "she: insinuations of flesh brooding."

"Both inevitable and fresh, she: insinuations of flesh brooding displays Spiel's ever present, intelligent, and sophisticated ear for language, his singular vision, and, most importantly, his guts to go on his nerve. He implicitly rebukes the tradition that has attempted to transform women into emblems of art, thereby erasing their lives. Instead, he positions them as subjects of the poems; real, ordinary women living extraordinary lives. ... Spiel's craft is not showy or adorned, but rather dignified and quiet, giving his voice a no-nonsense authority. Indeed, the poet Spiel writes with an authority of voice rarely achieved, by either man or woman, in the small press."
                                                                        Quote from Penhimalaya
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"They"
March Street Press, 2007
Poetry, 88+pages, with an introduction by Alan Catlin
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Raw exposure of those annoying, ubiquitous theys who plague our lives.

Thomas Conroy, poet/editor, writes of "They":

“Spiel writes poetry with the cadence and rhythm of a good jazz drummer who can make the ordinary into the complex while bringing it along in a smooth flow of disparate images which are ultimately connected.”

                                                                        Quote from Ascent Aspirations
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"breathing back words."
Audio, 2007
Poetry: Spoken Word Performance/ Music C.D.   
66 minutes

Seductive, insightful, deftly intimate, the compelling bounty of the written and spoken word of The Poet Spiel--"breathing back words" --uniquely tapestried into the underlayment of original compositions by composer Jack Moss to provide an astonishing ride into the depths of this adventurous poet's lungs.

"...an aural tour-de-force that will entertain, amaze and disturb you.
...might very well revolutionize the way poetry is laid down in recorded form."
                                                                      Robert Bixby, March Street Press 

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“Human”
Poetry, 36 pages.
Puddinghouse Publications, 2003.
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Reviewed in Chiron Review by critic/poet Fred Lowe:

“These are inner lives that (just like ours) are paradoxical, digressive, and often more than a little loony, yet have their elements of sad or happy predictability:
that are free-flowing yet gravely constricted by time, circumstance, and luck or its absence.” 

                                                                                          

“Insufferable Zipper”
Short Stories, 44 pages
Four Sep Publications, 2003
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Critical Statement by Michael McIrvin, critical essayist, novelist, poet:

“The pieces that make up Spiel’s Insufferable Zipper run the gamut from prose poetry to lyrical stories reminiscent of Burroughs in their tough surreal nature…
The bottom line is that these are not traditional short stories but what happens when a poet writes prose, which shows in the attention to language, to the ways images make up not just a picture but a holistic narrative.” 
                                                                                         

“it breathes on its own”
Poetry, 36 pages
Puddinghouse Publications, 2005
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Reviewed in Barbaric Yawp, by editor/writer/critic John Berbrich:

“…it all…reminds me of Whitman, poems written in sperm, sweat, and blood…
no trendy whining in this book … You’ll find a lot of tenderness in these poems:
I imagine Spiel right there, comforting all the victims, cradling the poor and the beaten, those that don’t fit in.” 
                                                                                         

“church floor”
Poetry, 26 pages
Chiron Review Press, 2005
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Reviewed in Bathtub Gin by veteran poet/critic Alan Catlin:

“This is a poetry of the depths and it is made to be read slowly, repeatedly, carefully to savor the instinctual rhythm, the throb of the words,
as they are repeated and refined…
Church Floor is the journal of a survivor of the psychic wars, of a personality divided, of a body in the severest kind of constant pain. Experience and understanding are not a release from internal tortures, nothing in this life could remove those. Still the poet presses on, knowing the journey will be one through absolute darkness.” 
                                                                                          

“come here cowboy: poems of war”
Puddinghouse Publications, 2006
Poetry, 28 pages
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Reviewed by Tom Conroy, editor/poet/critic, online, at The League of Laboring Poets:

“…pays homage to the warriors who innocently and dutifully respond to the clarion call from their country and its leaders. But more importantly, it calls to account the leaders who needlessly send these warriors into a hell storm for invalid reasons. come here cowboy come here is the most brilliant and direct anti-war poem of our time…”