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1. Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems
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2. Neither World: Poems (Miami University
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3. Twice Removed: Poems
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4. Poem of the Deep Song (Spanish
 
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5. The angel and the star [by] Ralph
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6. Vile Things: Extreme Deviations
7. Anxious Latitudes (Wesleyan New
 
8. Neither World
 
9. Hell's Angel and Ridin' High,
 
10. ANXIOUS LATITUDES.
 
11. ANXIOUS LATITUDES.
 
12. Cotton Ralph:While Angels Dance
 
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14. Poesias del Maestro Leon y de
15. While Angels Dance
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16. Angels' Town: Chero Ways, Gang
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17. Angels in Red Suspenders: An Unconventional
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18. Hells Angel. Mein Leben.
 
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19. The Angel And The Star (1908)
 
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20. The angel warriors at Mons, including

1. Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006
by Ralph Angel
Paperback: 175 Pages (2006-10-01)
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“He brings something ancient and compelling . . . a kind of rare Sephardic wisdom, a brilliance traveling at the speed of Los Angeles light. He is one of America’s very best poets. A true visionary.”—Tomaz Salamun
 
“Angel’s poems are deceptively quiet, deceptively calm. Beneath their carefully constructed surfaces, they are wild, even intimidating. The power of restraint in poetry cannot be overestimated. . . . These poems burn from within.”—Carol Muske-Dukes, LA Times

With the publication of his award-winning volumes, Anxious Latitudes, Neither World, and Twice Removed, Ralph Angel has won the admiration of readers of contemporary poetry for the extraordinary abstract lyricism of his poems. There is a superb grace, speculative intelligence, and a wry philosophical wisdom to Angel’s poetry. There are few poets so accomplished at creating an elegant yet innovative and provocative voice. Now, in Ralph Angel’s Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986–2006, we find ourselves again in the presence of poetry that will move us even closer to a new and renewed promise of the American sublime. As Mark Doty has written, “These are the poems of a casual, down-to-earth philosopher who’s been spun around and turned inside out by loss, by the desolation of life in the late [and early] hours of the century. . . . Angel’s poems are stamped indelibly with the mark of a unique, shaping imagination, and they’re fresh with news of how it feels to live right now. He creates himself and his poems’ characters, strange people in a strangely familiar place. We recognize them, of course, as well we might since they are ourselves and the city where they live is ours.

Ralph Angel is the author of three previous collections of poetry: Anxious Latitudes; Neither World, which received the 1995 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets; and Twice Removed; as well as a translation of Federico García Lorca’s Poem of the Deep Song.

Angel’s poems have appeared in scores of magazines and anthologies, both here and abroad, and recent literary awards include a gift from the Elgin Cox Trust, a Pushcart Prize, the 2003 Willis Barnstone Poetry Translation Prize, a Fulbright Foundation fellowship, and the Bess Hokin Award of the Modern Poetry Association.

Mr. Angel is the Edith R. White Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Redlands, and a member of the MFA Program in Writing faculty at Vermont College. Originally from Seattle, he lives in Los Angeles.



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5-0 out of 5 stars An Exceptional Collection
Ralph Angel is an American original.His work is suprising, wise and transcendent.Exception and Melancholies is an important collection. ... Read more


2. Neither World: Poems (Miami University Press Poetry Series)
by Ralph Angel
Hardcover: 94 Pages (1995-10)
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Asin: 1881163121
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5-0 out of 5 stars Bravely Human and Honest Poetry
Ralph Angel's work is visionary.There is wisdom and soul to be found in these poems.

3-0 out of 5 stars Unique
Ralph Angel can be remembered as a poet who was not afraid to be seedy and romantic. His verbal painting of the cityscape is a talent that is real and genuine. 'It Takes Practice To Get Lost' is a splendid line. Angel does get lost in Neither World and I wish I could have gotten lost with him. ... Read more


3. Twice Removed: Poems
by Ralph Angel
Paperback: 73 Pages (2001-10-01)
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Poems, said Robert Lowell, should be events, not records of events. The poems of Twice Removed are events, set in the bright between, that place between short days and long shadows, between past and future, between the inviolate self and the public person.Ralph Angel's poems see, and then reveal, Joycean layers of history--the past showing through the present, a host of bustling echoes set in motion by the vanished lives of others, and by the poet's own previous selves. Among the very dawn of us, Angel sings, a single shrug of heart unleashes waves of / birds and voices from the plaza.

Angel's poems are haunted by a sort of collective esprit de l'escalier--an anguish that things we left undone and unsaid go on resonating: A bride and groom stand shivering on a tarmac / in the mist, and / they are happy. Each one // and all of us entangled. Angel writes the arias of our subtext, provoking in the reader the recognition of longings just beyond reach of articulation. And though his poems are addressed to complexity, the language is not obscure: Angel's intense, visionary lyricism arrives in a seamless weave of elegance and streetwise savvy, the cadences somehow hypnotic and urgent at once.

This is a poet with the audacity to push the very limits of the American idiom in order to say things that could not previously be said, using sounds not previously heard. Ralph Angel stands as an American original, and Twice Removed is a book that will expand his already large and passionate audience of readers. ... Read more


4. Poem of the Deep Song (Spanish Edition)
by Federico Garcia Lorca
Paperback: 143 Pages (2006-10-01)
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Poema del cante jondo and Romancero Gitano, the books of poems that Lorca wrote first, out of his excited response to gypsy music, poetry, and dance all around him in Granada, contain some of his most powerful and trenchant lyrical work, original, inimitable, daring, and a clear expression of the duende, the Dionysian daemon in poetry, of which he wrote eloquently. A new, fresh, consistent translation—and Mr. Angel’s is all of these—is a welcome return to that wild dance, in this bilingual edition.”—W.S. Merwin
 
Cante jondo
. Deep Song. A poem meant to be sung, not with a pretty voice but with a cry, to break the silence and stillness of the body. A rustic form of flamenco. A poem written to remind Spain of its deep musical soul, the primitive song of the Andalusian Gypsies. A poem by Federico García Lorca written in 1921 when he was only twenty-three and had but fifteen years left to live before the Franco regime murdered him in the hills of Granada.

Translator Ralph Angel returns to Lorca’s strange, unique rhythms and to the irrational, intuitive duende. This incantatory translation, every bit as revolutionary as the original was almost a century before, reconfirms what Lorca said of this work, that it is “a slammer, a wavering emission of the voice . . . [that] makes the tightly closed flowers of the semitones blossom into a thousand petals.”

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5-0 out of 5 stars Evokes passion, vibrancy, and life
Poem of the Deep Song is a bilingual edition of the epic poem inspired by the music and culture of Andalusian Gypsies, penned by acclaimed Spanish artist and musician Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) and skillfully translated into English by award-winning poet Ralph Angel. Consisting of a diversity of impressions originally meant to be sung, not with overly mellifluous tone but rather in a deep, primal cry, Poem of the Deep Song evokes passion, vibrancy, and life undimmed by the turn of almost a century. "De Profundis": A hundred lovers / sleep forever / beneath this dry land. / Andalusia, / long, red-colored roads. / Cordoba, green olive trees, / where a hundred crosses / are placed in their memory. / A hundred lovers / sleep forever.

5-0 out of 5 stars An important new translation of Lorca's Poem of the Deep Song
These translations capture the music and, dare I say, the duende of Poem of the Deep Song like no other translation.These poems are wonderful because Ralph Angel's ear and attention are superb.This will be the definitive English translations of one of Lorca's masterpiece. ... Read more


5. The angel and the star [by] Ralph Connor
by Ralph Connor
 Paperback: 88 Pages (2010-09-11)
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6. Vile Things: Extreme Deviations of Horror
by John Bruni, Garry Bushell, Ramsey Campbell, Randy Chandler, Tim Curran, Ralph Greco Jr, C.J. Henderson, Z.F. Kilgore, Sean Logan, Graham Masterton, Angel Leigh McCoy, C. Dennis Moore, Stefan Pearson, Brian Rosenberger, Jeffrey Thomas
Paperback: 212 Pages (2009-06-01)
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Vile Things: Extreme Deviations of Horror is the ultimate collection of extreme horror from award winning masters and up-and-coming authors of macabre fiction. Authors include John Bruni, Garry Bushell, Ramsey Campbell, Randy Chandler, Tim Curran, Ralph Greco, Jr., C.J. Henderson, Z.F. Kilgore, Sean Logan, Graham Masterton, Angel Leigh McCoy, C. Dennis Moore, Stefan Pearson, Brian Rosenberger, and Jeffrey Thomas.

Witness the history of a sexually rapacious zombie . . . A starving soldier descends into insatiable ghoulism . . . A concentration camp SS guard gets a taste of his own medicine . . . Recycling takes on a whole new grisly meaning when a man obsessed with going green discovers a regenerative serum . . . A man buys his alcoholic mother a bottle of tequila-with the wrong kind of worm . . . An occult detective moves to a town in the Pine Barrens and discovers its sinister past-and his own . . . A tenant gets revenge on a self-centered landlord-with irritating results . . . A fisherman discovers his rival's secret of always getting the biggest catch . . . and much more!

Table of Contents: The Fisherman by Brian Rosenberger, Fungoid by Randy Chandler, Tenant s Rights by Sean Logan, Again by Ramsey Campbell, Maggots by Tim Curran, Going Green by Stefan Pearson, Coquettrice by Angel Leigh McCoy, The Fear in the Waiting by C.J. Henderson, The Worm by John Bruni, Sepsis by Graham Masterton, What You Wish For by Garry Bushell, The Devil Lives in Jersey by Z.F. Kilgore, Rat King by Jeffrey Thomas, The Caterpillar by C. Dennis Moore, Poor Brother Ed or The Man Who Visited by Ralph Greco, Jr.

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5-0 out of 5 stars This book delivers!
"Vile Things" is well named.I read a lot of "horror" that really isn't all that "horrible" (unless you count misspellings, poor grammar or poor editing)."Vile Things" however, is just what it says it is, nice, gross bleeding horror.There a few clunkers in the collection and a few of the stories have appeared elsewhere, but overall this is a very good collection of grue, gore and bizarre concepts.If you like your horror to be horrible then buy this book.

2-0 out of 5 stars More like 'extreme deviations in quality '...
This came up as a suggested item based on my purchase/browsing history with Amazon, and sounded right in line with my tastes, so I gave it a shot.

Now let me start out by saying, I was hoping for some pretty graphic, disturbing horror stories. The problem with this book though, is that most of the writing is so amateurish, that it doesn't really matter how shocking the writer tries to be - they just come off as not having the talent to pull it off. I'm looking at you, Sean Logan (Tenant's Rights) and Angel Leigh McCoy (Coquettrice)....

Don't get me wrong though - there are some GREAT stories among the crap. Ramsey Campbell's "Again", Tim Curran's "Maggots", and Graham Masterson's "Sepsis" really stand out. Also C. Dennis Moore's "The Caterpillar" and Jeffrey Thomas' "The Rat King".
The rest are just okay, not really good or bad.

There have been a lot of 'horror' anthologies lately - whenever I read them, I usually have the same thought (especially with this one)- how did they pick some of these stories? You have to wonder how poorly written something had to be to not be included...

If you have money to waste, I guess you could do worse, but it might take some research.

1-0 out of 5 stars gross out
vile things is a good title. so far only one story i would call good horror. the rest is just an attempt to be disgusting.

4-0 out of 5 stars Splatterpunk for the new Millennium
Vile Things is an anthology of extreme horror. I know what you're thinking, sure its extreme, but how extreme could it really be? Many anthologies have come before promising "extreme" horror but that promise usually goes unfulfilled. Vile Things delivers. Every story within is extreme in some fashion or another, many of which deal with body horror, a personal favorite of mine. One story in particular, Maggots by Tim Curran was so extreme it made me nauseous, and I read it after watched gorefest Bone Sickness. Yeesh. I will be tracking down his novels soon.Most of the authors here are on the rise or have been dealing depravity in the underground while most of us missed out, which is doubly awesome. I love discovering new authors. Its like a treasure hunt, and I found the mother load. Rat King byJeffery Thomas about a nazi death camp worker was particularly well written and nasty and The Devil Lives in Jersey by Z.F. Kilgore, a story about a big city cop in a small town haunted by a demon left me wanting much more from him.Fungoid by Randy Chandler was hilarious and disgusting and Coquettrice by Angel Leigh McCoy about a demon that steals men to breed with, was unique and graphic. In fact horror mainstays Ramsey Campbell and Graham Masterton's stories are the weakest of all which should tell you something. 15 stories in all, nicely published by Comet Press, a new publisher to keep your eyes on.

So, if you enjoy extreme horror, nausea, and pushing the literary envelope check out Vile Things, its the Splatterpunk of the new millennium.It's worth every penny.
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5-0 out of 5 stars Disgusting, in a really good way.
Lives up to the title. The stories are vivid with good visual impact and make you think, whether you want to or not.
Not a bad story in the bunch. Some will make you shiver, some will make you go "Eww-www." A good late night read if you don't need much sleep. After some of these stories are read you won't want to sleep. If you drink tequila I bet you stop after one story in this book. ... Read more


7. Anxious Latitudes (Wesleyan New Poets)
by Ralph Angel
Paperback: 64 Pages (1986-05-01)
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8. Neither World
by Ralph Angel
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9. Hell's Angel and Ridin' High, Livin' Free
by Ralph "Sonny" Barger
 Hardcover: 543 Pages (2000)

Asin: B0011V7HOO
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10. ANXIOUS LATITUDES.
by Ralph. Angel
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Asin: B000UDV8W6
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11. ANXIOUS LATITUDES.
by Ralph. Angel
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12. Cotton Ralph:While Angels Dance
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13. LIBERTY MAGAZINE - March 10 1945: Not in the Cards; Where's Julie; Pa Was Always Whistling; The Mad Mad Moon; The Girl Who Will Be Queen; Dark Angels of Doom; Ralph Allen; The One Woman Kitchen; Europe Expects to Do It Alone; Jobs for the Disabled
by C. J. (editor) (Samuel W. Taylor; Isabella Taves; Alice Maxwell; Charles Longstreth McNichols; R. V. C. Bodley; Hettie Grimstead; Molly Castle; Carey Longmire; Edward Adolphe; Juliet Bridgman; Trent Frayne; Roi Ottley) Harris
 Paperback: Pages (1945)

Asin: B000GVSLTU
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14. Poesias del Maestro Leon y de Fr. Melchor de la Serna y Otros (S. XVI)
by C. Angel; DiFranco, Ralph A.; Labrador Herraiz, Jose J. Zorita
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15. While Angels Dance
by Ralph W. Cotton
Paperback: 344 Pages (1995-05)
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An epic drama follows the post-Civil War adventures of young Jeston Nash, the cousin to outlaws Frank and Jesse James, and chronicles his crimes, friendships, loves, and eventual rise to respectability. Reprint. K. AB. PW. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars While Angels Dance
Great read!! Ralph Cotton is a master at western fiction. His characters live in your memory long after the book is finished.They become old friends that you can't wait to see again.

5-0 out of 5 stars Excelent Page Turner
I have just got into Westerns and where I live, there are no bookstores that sell them.It was when I was visiting my friends up in Canada when I found this book in a used bookstore.At first I wasn't so sure about it.I like factual books and wasn't into historical fiction sorts.This book changed my mind.I loved the adventures and the vivid images of the characters and their personalities make the book come to life and make it believable.There were several times when I had to remind myself that these were fictional events.This book is a keeper and I'm even thinking of getting the rest of the series :)

3-0 out of 5 stars RALPH COTTON HAS DONE BETTER!!!
I really had mixed feelings about this book. I started several times to just quit and go on to something else. It is about Jeston Nash, his leaving home and joining Jesse and Frank James and the "Boys." He kills many, gets shot several times, and all the good things men did at that time. I think his best friend is Quiet Jack Smith. You can feel the characters some times but the book just never got to me like othes of Cotton's have.I think there are five more books in the Jeston Nash Adventure series but this one takes him all the way, at least it looks that way to me. I wonder if the others are just flashbacks to previous times. Don't think I will try any more.

5-0 out of 5 stars Jesse James had a twin brother
Jesse James had a twin brother: his cousin, Jeston Nash.

Jesse James?Even today the name rings with excitement.Ralph Cotton brings that excitement roaring to life in his romantic first novel: WHILE ANGELS DANCE published by St Martin's Press.

One thing about Jesse James, everybody has an opinion, and nobody else agrees with it.
With a subject this volatile, you open the book with a ready sneer, ready to pounce on all the facts sure to be a little awry.But there is a delightful surprise in store.This writing is so good the sneer is immediately transformed into a grin of sheer delight.
Who cares about chasing down facts when you can go chasing down the old owlhoot trail with the 'real' Jesse James that Mr. Cotton has dreamed up?

A writer's job is to raise that curtain of the mind and create a reality the reader can actually see, hear, touch and smell.Ralph Cotton jumps right in, and pulls the reader in after him.In just a matter of minutes the smoke is boiling and outlaws with the bark on stand in the shimmering light with guns blazing.
There's no turning back, from the first page to the last, you will be anxiously watching the shadows to see what happens next.

"You could stumble into more trouble in two minutes than you could crawl out of in a hundred years." in those days.
Jeston Nash killed a Yankee soldier over a horse trade in Kentucky and the only place he could run to was the home of his Aunt Zeralda Samuel, the mother of Frank and Jesse James.

"Look here," she said to Doc Samuel."He looks enough like Jesse to be his brother."

Frank and Jesse were off riding under the black flag of Quantrill's guerillas.The rumors of Nash's presence bring them back, leery of a trap."I'd been drawing a fresh bucket of water from the well; the only sound in the stillness of morning was the squeaking crank handle and the clucking of chickens scratching in the dirt.Then all at once behind me, a horse nickered low, and the single heavy thud of a hoof jarred the ground.I froze, felt the skin ripple on my neck, and wondered in that split second how the hell a rider could've slipped in without them chickens raising a fuss."
It was Frank."Frank could lock on to your eyes like a coiled viper, and though I learned to overcome it in time, that day at the well, off guard, I just stood there staring, dumbfounded by the sudden appearance of this stranger with a friendly smile and a voice like gravel wrapped in silk.And behind him ... less than fifteen feet ... not one rider ... but six!They'd slipped in as quiet as smoke, and sat there atop their horses, looking hard eyed and evil."

WHILE ANGELS DANCE has two things going for it: The characters are so real you dread finding out what might happen to them next, and the outlaw humor has your face laughing before you realize your belly is shaking.
For example, Quiet Jack had been living with a widow for some time when Jeston came to call."You know, she killed her husband," Jack said casually the day we dug up the bank money.
He smiled affectionately."Yep, stabbed him in the heart while he was asleep."
"Does that bother you when you go to bed of a night?"I asked.
"Why should it?" he laughed."We ain't married!"
However, the token sex scenes are much too toxic even for a professional reader like me.Is all this trysting really that necessary?
The first one is more than a chapter long and could easily have been cut in half without the novel suffering any serious trauma.The blue language is almost black in places, but so naturally used that it doesn't actually ruin the story.

Only two, very brief scenes, jar the jaded senses.Both are deep into the novel and this reader probably only noticed them because discovering any less-than-perfect writing was a shock by that time.
A movie from this effort is almost unavoidable.Unfortunately, like Hondo, not even another John Wayne could make it as good as the original.

5-0 out of 5 stars Stunning
Having read RW Cotton's other work first, I realized when I read While Angles Dance that this is all a part of an ongoing saga that gives a full account of how two troubled young men have allied their lives together in a desperate search for meaning during an insane period of bloodshed and violence. It is easy to laugh, cry, and at times almost bleed right along with hisfictional outlaws. Miller Crowe & Quiet Jack are the most tortured, lonesome, complex and compelling characters to ever come out of a western novel.Angels Dance may well be the most spiritual in-depth western novel ever written ... Read more


16. Angels' Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and the Rhetorics of Everyday
by Ralph Cintron
Paperback: 288 Pages (1998-11-01)
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The decorations in a fourteen-year-old boy's room, historical ties to spiritual healers and migrant workers, the sexual puns of an older man, low-riders and youth gangs.…In their language and images, the members of a Latino community in a midsized American city create self-respect in an atmosphere of disrespect. In this creative ethnography Ralph Cintron offers a beautiful portrait of a struggling Mexican-American community and "a project in the rhetoric of public culture," to show how people make sense of their lives through cultural forms and how the work of anthropologists is in itself culture-making.
"[Cintron] uses his considerable skills as an ethnographer to provide a revealing look at the culture of a Mexican American community."


—Booklist
"A remarkable piece of ethnographic work."


—José Limón, author of Dancing with the Devil
"A special book that is just as much about inequality in the contemporary U.S. as it is about the way to research it. The writing is almost lyrical; the cumulative effect, devastating."


—Virginia Dominguez, author of White by Definition
"I am stunned, amazed, almost breathless at how good Angels' Town is.…Landmark critical ethnography and rhetorical analysis."


—David Jolliffe, DePaul University
"A stunning and important work that sets high standards for the new anthropology of Latino communities in the United States."


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17. Angels in Red Suspenders: An Unconventional and Humorous Approach to Spirituality
by Ralph Milton
Paperback: 288 Pages (1998-01-01)
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Ralph Milton is an angel. He may not look the part, but then, who does? In Angels in Red Suspenders, Milton shares stories of everyday miracles, hope, and the discovery of meaning. With characteristic zip and humor, he offers readers food for the spirit. ... Read more


18. Hells Angel. Mein Leben.
by Ralph Sonny Barger, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman
Paperback: 320 Pages (2003-01-01)
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5-0 out of 5 stars Leader of the Pack
The motorcycle club subculture has been an important theme in Hollywood (from The Wild One to Easy Rider) and in recordings (the song, Leader of the Pack). Everyone who sees the Hell's Angels has an opinion about what is going on, yet few have had a first hand relationship with a member. This book gives you a behind-the-scenes look at what it was like for Oakland's leader of the pack, one of the first branches of the Hell's Angels.

I grew up in San Bernardino (Berdoo in the book) which was an even earlier branch of the Hell's Angels than was Oakland. Some people I went to high school with joined the Hell's Angels. We all heard many stories about the group, and what went on. We treated these people with extreme caution and gave them a wide berth.

The book brings out an ethos of freedom (the open road) combined with a masculine emphasis on being respected and being loyal to friends. At the same time, there is an underlying sense of the frontier marshall, wanting to clean up those who were challenging law and order. Behind that there is a disregard for the rules most of us follow, whether in speed, drugs, theft, or violence.

This book is filled with deaths, injuries, and destruction. The Hell's Angels live in a dangerous world, and that doesn't bother them. What would bother them is not following their code of ethics.

Having read about all of the things the Hell's Angels are supposed to have done in the last 50 or so years, it is interesting to hear it from the other side.

Although you probably won't want to emulate Sonny Barger in too many ways, you'll certainly never forget him. If you love motorcycles (as many of us do), you'll be moved by his loving descriptions of various bikes. He was truly the wild one at the head of the bike pack. ... Read more


19. The Angel And The Star (1908)
by Ralph Connor
 Hardcover: 84 Pages (2010-09-10)
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more


20. The angel warriors at Mons, including numerous confirmatory testimonies, evidence of the wounded and certain curious historical parallels;
by Ralph Shirley
 Paperback: 22 Pages (2010-09-08)
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