Slow Dance with Sasquatch is an invitation into a private ballroom, a banquet hall in the middle of the woods. Here, you will sit and feast and waltz with your monsters. Here, you will harvest imagination from loneliness and longing. Here, you will coax laughter from the beasts' mouths. Here, the table is always fully loaded. Here, the cake is always warm, and no matter how much of it you eat, you will never stop being beautiful.

Slow Dance With Sasquatch

Literature & Fiction

Radin, Jeremy

Poetry

Write Bloody Publishing

The poems in this series are based on Lanford Wilsonâ€™s Pulitzer Prize-winning play â€œTalleyâ€™s Folly.â€ The play takes place in rural Missouri on July 4, 1944 in a boathouse belonging to the Talley family. It is the ninety-seven minute courtship of Sally Talley, a nurseâ€™s aide from a Protestant family, by Matt Friedman, an accountant and German-Jewish refugee. One year before the events of the play, the two had met and had a week-long affair, during which theyâ€™d fallen in love. However, each being the keeper of great secrets and intense private traumas, theyâ€™d decided to part ways. Over the course of the play it is revealed that Matt, unable to fully let go, had been writing and sending a letter per day to Sally before finally deciding to come back, confess his love, tell his story, and ask her to marry him. These poems come out of the rehearsal process of the play in which the author worked on the role of Matt. They were intended as a way in which to generate a greater understanding of the character, but ended up taking on a life of their own; exploring the space between actor and role, and as communion between withheld desire, perceived unlovability, Jewishness, loss of faith in the body and the spaces the body occupies, and ultimately, a tremulous sort of hope.

Dear Sal

Not a Cult

<p>Inspired by Lanford Wilson's play Talley's Folly, Jeremy Radin's <i>Dear Sal</i> is a series of epistolary meditations on loneliness, longing, the Jewish diaspora, bewilderment, divinity, and love. Radin's second collection lays bare a life lived in romantic exile, using the play's events--one year after a brief but passionate affair, a man returns to a deserted boathouse on his beloved's family property in order to offer himself to her--as the foundation for a mystifying interior stage, populated by a cast of eccentrics, upon which a man must wrestle, each moment, with his own unremitting desire.</p>

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Slow Dance With Sasquatch

Dear Sal

Dear Sal