Praise for The Ritualites:“A good prose poet is always all ears. There’s an understanding in Nardone’s poems of the way said and unsaid start and stop each other, how there’s always something heard plus something pulling what you hear.” –Emma Healey, author of Stereoblind

“The Ritualites is a spellbinding collection of North America’s sonic architecture and Nardone is a poet of its topologies, listening to the air when the body stops. The Ritualites is the jukebox of place; embodied leakages of the night, the shout, the cry and the laughter. A poetics of what language lays bare: little panic breaths, sound permitted in a cell. In The Ritualites, Nardone reminds us that language is wielded and listening is a verb.” –Jordan Scott, author of Blert and Night & Ox