Signal / Noise: Poems
Ebook
Signal / Noise concerns our search for meaning amid the noise that is constituent of human experience. Part I, "Noise," examines the background--and foreground--radiant static of human experience, originating (perhaps?) in the Fall. Part II, "Signal," surfaces hope, an inborn drive for meaningful existence. Part III, "Return," resolves that search at its genesis and terminus: the idea of home. The controlling themes of Signal / Noise are faith, experience, and the vagaries of God.
“These are poems for calamitous end days. Given the state of the world, this makes Bill Scalia’s Signal / Noise to be timely reading. Fortunately, some lines provide relief with the sheen of their knowing—I will never see a long-haired blonde again without pausing to relish the fall of hair ‘in a perfect slow wave . . . like goats moving on the slopes of Gilead.’ From such poetry, even an atheist can glean the benefits of religion.”
—Eileen R. Tabios, author of Because I Love You, I Become War
“Signal / Noise is a sure and faithful sign that the metaphysical lyric is as alive (as vital and vitalizing) now as it was when George Herbert struck the board ‘and cry’d, No more.’ The voice in these poems is unsettled but tenacious, dedicated (one is tempted to say, consecrated) to the task of living a fully conscious life, even if it means troubling those wounds across which faith sews its scars.”
—Clark Davis, author of It Starts with Trouble: William Goyen and the Life of Writing
“Bill Scalia’s diction immediately pleases: his sense of what the poetic line will hold, often short and rhythmic whether metered or free. But there’s more. From a distant and detached longing—one prose poem records an ecstatic experience of a divine voice rebuking him—Signal / Noise deepens as it progresses, gathering steam for a dark road ahead where Scalia’s revelations are frighteningly real.”
—Bainard Cowan, professor of literature, University of Dallas
- Title: Signal / Noise: Poems
- Author: Bill Scalia
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666760392, 9781666760385, 1666760382, 9781666760378, 1666760374, 1666760390
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666760392
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-11T01:16:13Z
Bill Scalia teaches writing, rhetoric, and literature at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore, Maryland, and has published widely in literature and film. He holds a PhD in English from Louisiana State University.