Spanning the years since the 1995 publication of Heart’s Geography: New & Selected Poems, these poems traverse distant lands, as well as the continent of the heart. In travels that take him through North America, Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, Vietnam, India and Mexico, Brandi engages the world with open eyes, ears and heart. Like Jack Kerouac, he "seeks source and renewal in new geographies and in the act of travel with its inevitable encounters and mysteries. He gets inside and outside things. Nothing passes him by. He’s a seer, a person who looks, who retains an abiding curiosity and sympathy with special people and places."—David Meltzer
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Like Jack Kerouac he seeks source and renewal in new geographies and in the act of travel with its inevitable encounters and mysteries. He gets inside and outside things. Nothing passes him by, he is a seer, a person who looks, who retains an abiding curiosity and sympathy with special people and places." -- David Meltzer.
About the Author
John Brandi is a poet and author of In What Disappears and Heartbeat Geography.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
In What Disappears,
By A Customer
This review is from: In What Disappears (Paperback)
As a follower of Brandi's work for years, I am excited for this new book, the first full-length collection in many years. Although in the opening poem Brandi expresses there's "Nothing to mark the way", the reader finds in these poems the sort of praise and grace that does just that. Because Brandi's road is open-ended and so full of discovery and richness, we, like the speaker in "Deep Motion Inside", can't help but realize "This vast, stretching impossibility is reachable." And reach, Brandi does: through poems that display wisdom that has been wrought from his many travels and the humans encountered on this earth that belongs to all of us...through nearly surreal poems that wrestle with "nights of anonymous desire", with letting "our hearts grow fierce in the wind", with the many other "yous". Herein are poems about writing, elegies, tributes to the living...all in all, a mighty book, a book to sink all of yourself into and emerge larger, enriched, fully named.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
