Poetry. "Brandon Arthur has the uncanny gift to be both Personist (see Frank O'Hara) and Archetypal (see Robert Duncan) in his works. Looking OUT at the phenomenal, looking IN at the possibly even more phenomenal (but not immediately accessible to others), his poems truly 'own' their sound/vision/intelligence. EXPIRED RX is a book unlikely to expire in the coming millennia (given, of course, the survival of writing)"--Anselm Hollo.
Author City: DENVER, CO USA
Raised in the flatlands of central Illinois, Brandon Arthur moved to Boulder, Colorado, in 1999 and graduated from Colorado University in Boulder. He then received an MFA from the Writing and Poetics Program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. He currently resides in Denver, Colorado.
“Brandon Arthur says 'gravity.’ He says ‘run your finger along the grain.’ It’s the weight & texture of a good particular poem he’s referring to. These poems of his sure have grain to them, American grain, & they have gravity. First the vocabulary catches you. Then notice the ambiguity, how it opens an influence that is magical, even spiritual. A physical space for the unknown & uncertain to enter your life.”
—Andrew Schelling
“EXPIRED RX is a cure for poetic disorders. A remedy for prescribed notions of viewing the quotidian. These poems understand how the ‘street rain became horizontal’ and how ‘an iris cranes to the sun.’ Brandon Arthur navigates the interstices of language and sound: a lattice of ‘disruptive landscape’ against the backdrop of ‘proverbial...shade.’ In an evening that resembles ‘something like loss,’ EXPIRED RX hones our senses, then renders a new world.”
—Michelle Naka Pierce