Portraits

Read Absinthe Literary Review's writeup of Angelhaunt Volume II

The Books of Angelhaunt
Volume II

is now available from Amazon.com.

In the final four Angelhaunt books, Jason Stuart Ratcliff further develops the role of the artist as prophet.

482 pages
$23.95

There is no need to read Volume I first.

These final four Angelhaunt books are at once philosophy and works of art. Ratcliff has created in these four books both poetry and religion, both blasphemy and a completely original cosmology. Ratcliff has looked into himself, found both treasures and terrors, and made works only a madman could create.

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*There is no need to read Volume I first.*

Volume II includes:

Portraits
Ahab in Three Acts: an apocalypse
The Dream Project: a sequence
Legal Impossibility: a cosmology

*I am offering the full texts of all Books of Angelhaunt online right here. The copies for sale at Amazon and elsewhere are for those who wish to read them comfortably on a couch instead of on the computer.*

Here is the full text of

Portraits

[Peter] [John the Baptist] [John the Apostle] [Matthew] [Ezekiel] [Isaiah] [Noah] [Daniel] [King David] [Adam] [Solomon] [Paul] [Nimrod] [James the Apostle] [Abraham] [Jacob]

Lazarus
(the journey into death)

[Let us go to the tombs] [We shall open doors] [But why must we go] [O we must go] [This is the sweet time] [The power of the horns] [And he walked with the stranger] [So now you've broken your oath] [O rhyme me a sailor's rhyme] [And your face is like ice] [Of course, now you're being calm] [I think you're coming to know why] [I see you wandering those halls] [Pass your hands over the flame] [And so we look for a perfect world] [And this is your tiny vision] [And now the fish are tearing] [Now break those hand bones] [And what is this crazy sound?] [Here you have his flowing brown beard] [Now you understand what I mean] [There are seven gables] [I saw you looking] [This is your soulful bread] [But what is this contaminated wine?] [You are one with the city] [What did you say when you died?] [The lamplight has faded] [O glorious little worm] [And now he was growing] [No more of this monster] [But why must you constantly as me my name?] [O human beings] [The army of the soldiers of light] [And the thunder sounds] [The dead are earth and worms] [So now you were rescuing people] [This eel is steel-headed] [He knew he wanted to live in lushness] [So you live your life] [And he touched her gingerly] [This is the way we sacrifice our goats] [The windows and mirrors have shattered] [But what am I doing in this grave?] [These are your strong white hands] [Come with me into the stratosphere] [Bring your goat herds and your sheep herds] [What are these chains binding me?] [You thought that fish was dead] [When will we cease to march out?] [Is this really our duty here on earth?] [You're becoming something of a mystery] [Why does this clock keep chiming?] [Here is your stone] [Be still now] [I unfurl myself] [Where are my holy sites?] [These are holy yarns] [I am the tiny whisperer] [I am ready for the bloody egg] [I am shivering] [I am stricken with disease] [Give me your milk] [Where did you get such a terrible white face?] [Yes, give me your milk] [Why do you not speak?] [O mother] [Now you lie still] [There is, within the dark waters] [This is your coldness] [O let us go]