El Camino: And Other Travel Poems

This is the fourth and illustrated poetry book in the VItalist Series by LL Press. Featuring the collected works of poet and filmmaker Patrick Pfister. In the barest sense, the poems contained within "El Camino and Other Poems" provide a retrospective transcription of the author's travels. However, once one has ventured into the poems themselves, one intuits early on that there is a union between poetry and pilgrimage that exceeds a mere recording of memories. The poems do not just index the journey; they are the journey, articulating, on the one hand, the rhythmic progression of the pilgrims on the trail, and, on the other hand, the phenomenological intimacy between poetic language and the human body.