Poetry. "Brandi's intriguing volume concentrates on time and place: 'Think back to Chief Joseph, the march / through Maryland against Vietnam;/Nixon, Somoza, Botha, Papa, Doc, Pinochet / or Kit Carson....' Here political protest suggests more generally the barriers we confronted in our lives. The forcefulness throughout brings to mind the works of Jack Hirschman and Octavio Paz, but a mythic dimension, enhanced by insights from Brandi's travels, is evident: 'Along the sea / butterflies cluster in eucalyptus. / Here, a shifting jet stream brings desert rain.' Written from 1979 to 1986, these poems give witness to the poet's increased maturity and mastery of his craft"—Leonard D. Moore, Library Journal.

Author City: EL RITO, NM USA

John Brandi has been faithful to the craft of poetry, painting, journaling, and gardening for most of his life. He is an ardent traveler, giving readings of his poetry and exhibiting his visual art at home and abroad. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry, he has been invited to lecture on the practice of haiku in Ottawa, Canada, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Los Angeles, California, and Chandigarh, India. John Brandi's archives (1963-1999) are in the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Complete collections of his books and broadsides may be found at: the University of California, the University at Buffalo, Brown University, and the Chavez History Library, Santa Fe NM.