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Succumb
to the irresistible mythologies built around the beauty of
evil. Surrender to the temptations of the flesh, its
vampiric shades, its mouth-watering energy. And submit to
the epistolary colour Red: blood, wine, sex, desire,
fire...in Walter Ruhlmann’s haunting yet sanguine
collection of poetry, CARMINE CARNIVAL. -- Pasquale
Goldberg, Lazarus Media Publisher
*****
Walter
is both a young and experienced poet as regards to his
commitment to
contemporary poetry as he has been editing the journal
mgversion2>datura since 1996. His natural independent
mind drives
him to look at the poetry from other parts of the world,
mostly
poetry in English, from these lands of islands and sun
sometimes, a
poetry he translates and renders to us as many proofs of
his yearning
for freedom.
*****
Walter
Ruhlmann is a writer and a poet definitely turned toward
poetry in
the English language, that is to say misunderstood or
ignored by
French poetry circles that do not like real life poetry
maybe, poetry
of living a man's life in all its dimensions, with so
many of them
and so rich by the way, without the need to go and fetch
whatever,
wherever, that would make it more “poetic”. Walter's pen
is wide
enough to dig as much beauty in the language as
crudeness in the
existence. His own existence is his creative soil and he
does not
hesitate to call a puss a pussy and a dick a dick. Yet,
he stands
away from the common, self-centered authors. Through his
journal
mgversion2datura, he, especially but not only, likes and
is
interested in the others' work, even if it's not always
his cup of
tea, but his mind reflects his pen: it is wide and open
–
stinginess being certainly kept for more intimate and
rather private
pleasures.
*****
Walter
Ruhlmann is a poet who writes with wit and intelligence.
His poetry
is vivid and accessible full of sharp bright images that
invite you
into his world and then takes you down roads that trick,
amuse and
surprise. He sits a little outside of mainstream in so
far as his
poetry is not trite or obvious, he is someone I enjoy
reading and one
of those names I look for when a magazine drops through
the door.
*****
Walter
Ruhlmann is a poet of intersecting universes, a
connoisseur and
composer of watchful nights, a procreator and
juggler of sensual and
philosophical discoveries. The gravitational
field of his poetry
unfolds like the appeal of an ocean echoing the
voices of never
ceasing questions and restless doubts. His
multi-faceted,
simultaneously classical and avant-garde oeuvre
is a constant
impelling force to dedicate our lives to
perfecting our perceptive
and transcendental worlds while incorporating
the tangible, bodily
realms as well in order to become the carnal
apotheosis of millenary
poetical quests.
