The World, The World - Softcover

Brandi, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935210505 ISBN 13: 9781935210504

Publisher: White Pine Press, 2013

Synopsis

In The World, the World John Brandi takes his cues from the works of Chinese painters, the travels of Basho, and the plain speech of his "shack-simple" contemporaries. His poems distill the essence of his travels in the American high desert, Japan, India, the Himalayas, and blend them with his life at home in the mountains of New Mexico. With keen ear, offbeat humor, spiritual insight, and love for all that illuminates mind and heart, Brandi transforms our idea of the world and our sense of place in it.

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About the Author:

John Brandi grew up exploring California's Sierra Nevada mountains and the Big Sur coast. After receiving a BA in art and anthropology, he joined the Peace Corps, worked with Andean farmers,  held odd jobs in Mexico,  drove a truck in Alaska, pruned vineyards north of San Francisco and lived in a miner's shack above the Yuba River. In 1971 he moved to New Mexico, built a cabin in a remote canyon, raised two children and began teaching as a poet in the schools. His books of poetry, travel essays, and haiku have earned him a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry, the White Pine World of Voices Poetry Award, and several teaching grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry.
 

Review:

"Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinarily profound poet of prayer and praise."   --David St. John
 
"These poems shine with a Taoist sensibility, heightened sensitivity, and clarity of detail. Poems of rare precision, charm and truth."   --Joanne Kyger
 
"A subtly crafted compendium of geophysical/metaphysical perceptions and reflections by a world-poet, journeying yet always profoundly at home in this multi-layered trickster world."       --Ken Rodgers, Kyoto Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: White Pine Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1935210505
• ISBN 13: 9781935210504
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128