Charles Rammelkamp gets right under Houdini’s skin to create a first-person poetic autobiography that brings the world’s most famous escape artist to life.
“A Magician Among the Spirits is a fast moving, deeply engrossing story of magic, transformation, drama, mystery, travel, and trauma in 55 poems that trace the course of Houdini’s life, from his first dabblings in magic to his slightly mysterious death described in the coda by bereaved wife Beatrice. A striking portrayal of Houdini, as richly lyrical as it is engrossing.”
~Magdalena Ball, Editor-in-chief, Compulsive Reader
The poems in this book — direct, meditative, sometimes playful — cohere into a headlong narrative that is never less than compelling. Here, readers will find a uniquely American tale of perseverance and reinvention, as Rammelkamp’s Houdini reminds us of “How we escape to who we really are!”
-Jon Ballard, author of Year of the Poets and Possible Lives
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