Shadow Play: Poems 1987-1991

Literature & Fiction

Brandi, John

Poetry

Light and Dust

That Back Road in

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First edition. One of 500 copies. A book of poems. Fine in printed wrappers. Not paginated. stiff paper wrappers.. small 8vo..

Looking for Minerals

Cherry Valley Editions

<p>In its lyricism and rich detail, this collection of sixteen meditations is very much in the tradition of Joseph Wood Krutch's The Desert Year. In the author's knowing hands, the desert landscape of the American Southwest and northern New Mexico is lifted into the realm of magic: shamans float in the arid air and flowers bloom blindingly bright after a desert rain.</p>

In the Desert We Do Not Count the Days

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Holy Cow! Press

That Crow That Visited Was Flying Backwards

Stone Garland

Tooth of Time Books

Visits To The City Of Light

These poems, quick-flash snippets culled from several years of writings--in solitude, while traveling, in work-a-day routines or high-country switchbacks--spring from a tradition as old as the Japanese poet Basho and still just as lively. Falling somewhere between haiku and senryu, John Brandi calls his three-liners "twists"--bringing to light a distinct American style with roots firmly planted in the natural world and the seasons of the human heart. "Here are poems which leap into the center of gravity. They bring your own world home and give you a fresh taste of wonder. As delicious as discovering the moon over and over again, this book says--Wake up! Be amazed at what happens, no matter what."--Natalie Goldberg

Weeding the Cosmos

La Alameda Press

A major collection of Brandi’s work, spanning nearly thirty years of travel— from early poems written in South America to those from India, Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, the Arctic, the North American outback, the deep solitude of New Mexico’s mountains, and always from the continent of the heart.“Brandi’s sandy poem mandalas, crisscrossing back and forth on their own paths, begin to fill out landscapes in depth.”— Gary Snyder

Heartbeat Geography: New and Selected Poems

White Pine Press

<p>Poetry. "A student looking at modern haiku for the first time often asks, 'Why does haiku look like it does today? What happened to the rules?' A simple answer, to quote Zen teacher Joko Beck, is: 'A good practice is always undermining itself.' Continent to continent, culture to culture, language to language, haiku has made itself new. During this transformation, practitioners parted ways with rules that worked best for Japanese speakers. New languages, geographies, climates, and cultural environments triggered new approaches. The essential core ideas of Basho's time are with us, though. Keep it brief, let it jump, follow the natural world through its seasons, but do not forget the seasons of the heart"—from the Afterword.</p>

Seeding the Cosmos: New & Selected Haiku

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