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CarloParcelli channeling the spirit of the apostle Simon Kananaios aka 
Simon the Zealot will be performing selected monologues from his 
Canaanite Gospel: A Meditation on Empire at the Boog Festival August 
3^rd at the Sidewalk Café as well as a full one and one half hour 
performance at theBowery Poetry Club on August 4^th at 6:30 PM. Will he 
again cast his rod into a serpent as he did at Busboys and Poets in DC? 
Or will an indignant God smite the blasphemer and the Archbishop nix his 
celestial cabaret card?

http://carloparcelli.com/

https://www.facebook.com/carlo.parcelli

https://www.facebook.com/events/261559237366228/

https://www.facebook.com/events/1514470778783300/?context=create&source=49

http://carloparcelli.com/

88 of the 93 monologues comprising the Gospel According to Simon 
Kananaios appear in scroll form and are available at Country Valley 
Press. Read what reviewers have to say:

The book's primary literary inspiration may be David Jones, who after 
WWI wrote long poems like "Anathemata" implicitly comparing the Roman 
and British empires. Present also is the ghost of Ezra Pound, who made a 
comparable juxtaposition of eras in "Homage to Sextus Propertius." Maybe 
POUND is the more appropriate citation, for his "Propertius" showed 
poets the use of a persona to double the poetic voice--that is, make it 
speak more than one idiolect at a time. --- Wayne Pounds Pound Scholar 
and Professor Aoyama University <http://aoyama.academia.edu/>, English 
<http://aoyama.academia.edu/Departments/English>, Faculty Memberof 
Literature Tokyo

The power of these monologue meditations comes from a bravura use of 
language reminiscent of JOYCE or Burgess. The 88 monologues are a 
calliope of argots, "profane, blasphemous, obscene and peppered with 
ethnic slurs." --- Wayne Pounds Pound Scholar and Aoyama University 
<http://aoyama.academia.edu/>, English 
<http://aoyama.academia.edu/Departments/English>, Faculty Member and 
Professor of Literature Tokyo

Carlo Parcelli's Canaanite Gospel is a work of astonishing wit and 
temerity that infuses the Synoptic Gospels with vitality, relevance, and 
urgency by breaking open the complacent vanity which has enrobed the 
gospels in recent memory. --- Jennifer Johnston

Ferocious, hilarious, deeply and richly imagined, The Canaanite Gospel 
projects a world as new and undiscovered as it is disturbingly 
recognizable. --- Jack Foley, novelist, playwright and editor

"The Canaanite Gospel" -- an unapologetically revisionist (not to say 
irreverent: but I'll OK, I'll say it. . . ) telling of scenes around the 
gospel stories, with a "Passover Plot" premise. Most interesting were 
the voices inspired by David Jones's Roman poems -- Carlo performed part 
of "The Fatigue" in cockney voice, per David Jones's suggestion in the 
preface to In Parenthesis, to set up the voice of his own Roman captain, 
one Severenus. A terrific performance..." --- Kathleen Henderson Staudt 
teacher, poet and spiritual director at the University of Maryland, 
College Park, Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria and Wesley 
Seminary in Washington, DC

I absolutely understand Parcelli's hints that the whole shebang wrote 
itself, as though 'dictated': the author the vessel through which the 
Rite makes itself manifest. Right and proper because that is the nature 
of religion (surely?) that it is revealed - and here that revelation is 
itself revealed in a new and this-minute - eighty-eight poems long! - 
vision. It has that belief in itself. 'Reverse engineering an empire!' 
he calls it. --- Alan Tucker antiquarian and poet

The book's primary literary inspiration may be David Jones, who after 
WWI wrote long poems like "Anathemata" implicitly comparing the Roman 
and British empires. Present also is the ghost of Ezra Pound, who made a 
comparable juxtaposition of eras in "Homage to Sextus Propertius." Maybe 
Pound is the more appropriate citation, for his "Propertius" showed 
poets the use of a persona to double the poetic voice--that is, make it 
speak more than one idiolect at a time. --- Wayne Pounds Pound Scholar 
and Professor Aoyama University <http://aoyama.academia.edu/>, English 
<http://aoyama.academia.edu/Departments/English>, Faculty Member of 
Literature Tokyo

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