Where there is no vision, the people perish; rather, cast off restraint, become ungovernable, cannot be reined in ~ Exodus 32:22, 25WHERE THERE IS NO VISION :Is the new book of poetic-prose by poet/writer R.M. Engelhardt written overthe last several months March ~June of 2020 coming off of his last book of mysticism & poetry "DarkLands" his new work"Where There Is No Vision" poetically and vividly captures the days & these times of fear, racism, death and the coronavirus quarantine with all the rage, truth, anger, grieving & sadness of a divided, broken & exploited American people betrayed by their own sociopathic President and even by both parties of their own government who did nothing to stop his reign or the death surrounding us themselves. The year 2020 will be remembered as the year a great nation was almost destroyed by a tyrant and his supporters. "Where There Is No Vision" will also be remembered for it's scathing cry out against a country & administration which refuses to change or even save it's own people who are on the verge of a near revolution and a recognition of false heroes, values and the destruction of a fraudulent democracy ruled by wealth & race. A Reckoning is Coming.
Upstate NY based poet, writer R.M. Engelhardt has published several books over the last 25 years including The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems of R.M. Engelhardt & others. Engelhardt through his ideas & visions has helped to create a large amount of the Upstate, Albany, NY spoken word~poetry scene. His work has also been published by many journals both in print including Writers Resist, Telepoem, Red Fez, Rusty Truck, Sure! The Charles Bukowski Newsletter, Thunder Sandwich, dry land lit, 2nd Avenue, The Angry Poet,Danse Macabre, Full of Crow & many others. He is also the founder of the group Albany Poets.
His books are "Coffee Ass Blues & Other Poems" (Alien Buddha Press) and "Darklands" 2019 (Whiskey City Press) Where There Is No Vision & We Rise Like Smoke Poems Psalms Incantations Published by DeadMansPressInk Now Available on Amazon, 2021.