Disturbances

Elio Emiliano Ligi

Raw language and a sense of reality, at times disturbing, set the tone for Ligi’s Disturbances. Paul Fericano says, “his poetry is likely to be noted for a certain special riff, an extra glide, a kick where none is expected, and a beat for which there is no notation.” In the early Sixties Ligi’s work attracted the attention of poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and perhaps it was for what you’ll find on these pages—poems ready to jump forward and reveal, unveil, surprise and sometimes shock.

A sample poem from the book

Now You Have Gone

Now you have gone the rain drowns out

The onions rot sets in and paints

Each tomato a face

As old as my grandmother's got

I should have said think

Of the garden do not go

I should have said show me

What hurts I will touch it see

How everything

Dies at my touch.