The Ritualites is Michael Nardone's book-length poem on the sonic topography of North America.

Composed over ten years at sites all across the continent--from Far Rockaway to the Olympic Peninsula, Great Bear Lake to the Gulf of California--the book documents the poet's listening amid our public exchanges, mediated ambiances, and itinerant intimacies. The Ritualites is a series of linguistic rituals that shift, page to page, through a range of forms and genres--a rhapsodic text for occasional singing and a best-selling thriller, a self-help guide and sabotage manual, a score for solo performance and a cacophony of voices.

Michael Nardone is a poet and editor based in Montréal. Never settling on a single genre, practice or mode, his works often explore and experiment within histories of literature, techniques of embodied performance, and cultures of mediation. Nardone’s recent and forthcoming works include: *Aural Poetics* (an edited work on sound and composition across the arts), *Convivialities* (a book of dialogues), *Yellow Towel: A Score* (a collaboration with Dana Michel), *Border Tuner | Sintonizador Fronterizo* (a monograph on Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, co-edited with Edgar Picazo), the Documents on Expanded Poetics book series (which he co-edits with Nathan Brown), *The Transatlantic Conversation* (a translation of Abigail Lang’s monograph on contemporary French and US poetry), and *The Ritualites* (a book of poems), as well as a range of essays and editorial works concerning the literary arts and other inscriptive practices. Beginning in 2024, he is a writer-in-residence at the SETI Institute.

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