Poetry." BRAMBU DRESI, BOOK TWO is a collection of expanded visions that uses the full arsenal of techniques available to the writer - heightened syntactic experimentation, graphic imagery of various kinds, typographic expression beyond the traditional line, morphological invention, implied oralization, and on and on. Jake Berry places language under a tremendous pressure, opening up the mythic realm of the gods driven out of our technological culture. Through his agency, they have returned in all their irritating opacity, breath-taking brilliance, raw power, and subtlety, speaking sometimes in a small voice, at others obliterating the reader's merely human point of view altogether with the sheer force of their presence. Here the author's mastery of the materials of his craft is completely subsumed in the service of this unusual vocation, to allow the world's divinities to resume their central place on the scientifically impoverished stage of our denatured and deadened existence. This book is simultaneously utterly unique and full of ancient familiar beings"-Harry Polkinhorn.

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.