Description
Poetry. BRAMBU DREZI is a deep reading of late twentieth-century mind. Along with Black Mountain poetry, Beat poetry is one of its antecedents, and Beat poet John Wieners might well have been prophesying this poem when he wrote, "Poetry is a trance of make-believe...a condition of gradual loss / of reality until there's only left / this shattering of the world." Not to know Berry's work is to miss something essential and stunningly beautiful about the late 20th Century, what has been called a "century of horror," yet Berry, in this great visionary work, mirrors this millennium not only as an end but a beginning.
Author Bio
Jake Berry is a poet, songwriter, and visual artist. His books include TRILOGY: KENOSIS (Lavender Ink, 2018), PHANEAGRAMS (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2017), SPECIES OF ABANDONED LIGHT (Pantograph Press, 1995), Blood Paradoxes/War Poems (XPressEd) and BRAMBU DREZI (Station Hill Press of Barrytown, 1993). He has been an active member of the global arts and literary community for more than 30 years. His poems, fiction, essays, reviews and other writings have been published widely in both print and electronic mediums. He regularly records and performs his songs solo and with the groups Bare Knuckles, Rayner Maeve, The Ascension Brothers and The Strindbergs. Cypress, his 12th solo album, was released in 2018. He lives in Florence, AL, with his wife and a wild assortment of cats.
Author City: FLORENCE, AL USA