Poetry. A collection of 55 poems that rip through the raw and uncensored mine fields of life, lust and war among family, friends, acquaintances, and the author himself. While they don't emerge victorious, each of the muses exhibits--as the title indicates--a complex bravery. "He writes from the consciousness of the bombed and 'the living narrator.' World-weary, grieving, cynical, ironic, raging, from the real to the surreal, A COMPLEX BRAVERY is of the drek of our world gone mad. "Not Me in Nablus" is one of the most important poems of this era."--Sharon Doubiago. "Lipton's poems are a gang that takes no prisoners: his voice is direct, his tone is clear, his diction is ironic but his irony is earned and felt-through."--Ilya Kaminsky.

Robert Lipton is the author of Bearing Witness in the Promised Land. In: Live from Palestine (South End Press). His stories and poems have appeared in a wide range of literary journals, both on and offline, including Echo 681, Interbang, Jacaranda Review, Squaw Valley Review, King Log, Shades of Contradiction, The Texas Observer and Parthenon West. He has received grants from Berkeley Community Arts and Alameda Community Arts Programs, was for seven years poetry workshop leader at Berkeley Art Center.