Hymn for a Night Feast: Poems: 1979-1986 - Softcover

Brandi, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0930100271 ISBN 13: 9780930100278

Publisher: Holy Cow! Press, 1996

Synopsis

These poems move out from the Southwestern desert to use the world as a locale for exploration and expression, from Mexico, Alaska, and San Francisco, to Benares, India and also the New Mexico State Penitentiary. Moving from place to place, revealing both political protest and the solace of love, Brandi creates a sense of a surreal that frees the reader from the limitations of the ordinary.

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Review:

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Aleknagik
Beyond You, Beyond Me
Biting The Chill
Early February, Moon In Neptune
Faces Reflecting In Ink
Graffiti, One Continent Two Worlds
Here, Give Your Hand
Hiking The North Coast By Moonlight
Hymn For A Night Feast
I Am Not Thinking Anything
In Another Distance
In Midflight, Between Continents
It Is Not The You
Madrigal, An April Morn
Meditations From A Bench In Front Of The Bellas Artes
A Message From Han Shan
Monkeys At Swayambhunath
New Discovery
Night Drive, After A Workshop At The State Pen
Old Beast Self
On The Date Line
Over Mekong Delta, 1979
A Photographic Roll, Benares
A Poem For Green
A Poem For Light
Postal From Tzintzuntzan
Praise To The Mother Goddess
Preparing The Nets At New Stuyahok
A Question Of Journey
Quiet Riot
Rasa Lila, Kanchipuram
Reading Ghost Tantras Waiting For A Night Flight
Reply To A Friend Far Away
'they Say You're On The Wrong Road If It's Your Own,
Today There Are These Things & They Tell Me To Remember
True Love
What Hope Without Solidarity?
What Rite Had She
Woman Finding Herself
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

From Library Journal:

Brandi's intriguing volume concentrates on time and place: "Think backto Chief Joseph, the march/through Maryland against Vietnam;/Nixon, Somoza, Botha, Papa, Doc, Pinochet/ or Kit Carson. . . ." Here political protest suggests more generally the barriers we confronted in our lives. The forcefulness throughout brings to mind the works of Jack Hirschman and Octavio Paz, but a mythic dimension, enhanced by insights from Brandi's travels, is evident: "Along the sea/ butterflies cluster in eucalyptus./ Here, a shifting jet stream brings desert rain." Written from 1979 to 1986, these poems give witness to the poet's in- correction: Due to an editing error, the 8 review of Paul Monette's Love Alone ( LJ 4/ 1/88) contained an unclear sentence. The fourth sentence should read, "The poems use remembered episodes to celebrate 'that two men ceased to be single,' but more often ride the surface of the present moment, ex pressing the rage felt during Rog's dying and the ache of being the remaining half of a couple." We apologize for the error. creased maturity and mastery of his craft. Lenard D. Moore, Wake County Arts Council, Raleigh, N.C.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Holy Cow! Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0930100271
• ISBN 13: 9780930100278
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 76