Poetry. A work of almost two decades, BRAMBU DREZI is poetry as experience and an unbounded process of imagination. This three-part work is inspired and sourced in fields as diverse as The Old Testament, quantum physics, medieval alchemical texts and grimoires, Marcel Duchamp, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Haitian Vodun, and the music of Hildegaard von Bingen, Bartok, Robert Johnson, and John Coltrane. Berry combines words with drawn, painted and computer-manipulated images to create a deeply spiritual yet unexampled book. At once dark and luminous, it is an ecstatic, visionary work summoning "oliberation in all its forms." Writing about BRAMBU DREZI Harry Polkinhorn referred to Berry as "the preeminent experimentalist of his generation."

Jake Berry is a poet, songwriter, and visual artist. His books include Species of Abandoned Light (Pantograph Press), Blood Paradoxes/War Poems (XPressEd) and Brambu Drezi. His work has appeared regularly in journals, magazines, and online publications for more than two decades. He lives with his wife and two cats in Florence, Alabama.

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