Where the Wind Cries Ma Rainey

Where the Wind Cries Ma Rainey is a bold, rogue, genre-defying collection of poetry that blends music, memory, and raw emotion. Mike Rosler takes readers on a journey through the highs and lows of human experience, weaving together vivid imagery, sharp rhythms, and an unmistakable voice. This is beboppy poetry that sings, shouts, and whispers-refusing to be boxed in or pinned down.. "These poems crackle and sweat and reek and throb, and bring up vivid vignettes of a life lived all over the place. Echoes of Robert Lowell, if Lowell had been a musician." -Mary K McAlpin, Cragsmoor Books

"Mike writes in a style that cannot be and should not be labeled this style or that style. His poetry is so unique it must be experienced, and the reader can interpret and decide for themselves what they have just experienced. I think Mike is a freaking genius... Perhaps, the most original poetry of our time." -Dickson Shreffler, poet, author of When Our Tomorrows Become Our Yesterdays