This collection of prose poems explores the expansiveness of language as it ranges over particle physics and cosmology, and in how texts network with other texts (some of the poems were generated from other texts, from Google searches, through “interactions” with random texts). Interstitial poems between sections provide structure for the book; built entirely from language that appears elsewhere in the book, they progress according to the Fibonacci sequence, which determines first the number of words in each poem, then the number of words and the number of syllables as the numbers grow larger.

And How to End It

Literature & Fiction

Clements, Brian

Poetry

Quale Press

Disappointed Psalms is published as the recipient of the Colombian Poetry Gift sponsored by Meritage Press.  After years of working exclusively in the prose poem, Brian Clements shifts in Disappointed Psalms to short bursts, in turns raw and lyrical, that turn the languages of war and religion, so frequently aligned, against themselves.  Combining short phrases from The Book of Psalms and catch phrases from the post-9/11 cultural reservoir with Clement's own lamentations on lost faith, these short poems and the litany that closes the book, like all the best political poems, attempt to wrest the ability to make meaning from the hands of spin doctors, liars, dissemblers and would-be builders of empire.

Disappointed Psalms

Meritage Press

<p><div>BRIAN CLEMENTS was born in Memphis and raised in Arkansas. He teaches at the University of Texas at Dallas and is the co-founder of Rancho Loco Press. His chapbook, Flesh and Wood, is available from Mbira Press.</div></p>

Essays Against Ruin: Poems (Texas Review Southern and Southwestern Poets Breakthrough Se)

History & Criticism

Trp: The University Press Of Shsu

Jargon

<p>In A Book of Common Rituals, Brian Clements presents a fantastic and mundane religion in which all the rituals are built around the absurdity of human behavior, all the beliefs are founded on what is regrettable and all the dogma exists for the purpose of celebrating the tragicomedy of human folly. Using sequences of prose poems with accompanying texts and images, Clements invites us to enter a temple that welcomes everyone, especially heathens and blasphemers. In the world created by A Book of Common Rituals, readers become willing participants in behaviors that may seem eerily similar to the rituals that inhabit their own individual imaginations.</p>

A Book of Common Rituals

Quale Press LLC

Anthology of Short Stories and Poems II

<p>This new book continues the adventures of Private Detective Jack Donavon of the "If Could Hear What I See" series as he continues to search for the person who caused his hearing loss. This leads Jack back to Florida where he meets his attacker and must fight him or be killed. Jack also works with unusual clients who get him in all sorts of problems and different situations Plus you can also follow David and Carol Anne Taylor as they discuss the papers of David's great-grandfather who helped search for serial killer, H.H Holmes. Added to that, you can read the adventure that Jason and Ava had as they guarded a mental hospital in Florida in the middle of Hurricane Michael and the dilemma they must encounter. And don't forget the love stories and poetry that always come with Brian's collection.</p>

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And How to End It

Disappointed Psalms

Essays Against Ruin: Poems (Texas Review Southern and Southwestern Poets Breakthrough Se)

Jargon

A Book of Common Rituals

Anthology of Short Stories and Poems II

Anthology of Short Stories and Poems II