In What Disappears - John Brandi

$15.00 112 pages ISBN 1-893996-63-8

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Spanning the years since the 1995 publication of Heartbeat Geography: New & Selected Poems, these poems traverse distant lands, as well as, the continent of
the heart. In travels that take him through North America, Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, Viet Nam, India, and Mexico, Brandi engages the world with open
eyes, ears, and heart.

John Brandi was born in Los Angeles in 1943. Since 1973, he has been awarded residencies by the state arts councils of Alaska, Arkansas, California, Montana, Nevada, New York and New Mexico to teach in schools, prisons, and homes for the physically and mentally disabled. Author of more than thirty books of
poetry, essays and modern American haiku, he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and the Djerassi Foundation. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies and have been translated into Spanish and Italian. As a visual artist he has exhibited his paintings and collages worldwide. He lives in El Rito, New Mexico, with his wife Renée Gregorio and is a member of the summer poetry faculty at Idyllwild Arts, California.

"Brandi has been an open roader for much of his life and like his two great forbearers, Whitman and Neruda, has named the minute particulars, the details of his soujournings ... infusing them with a whole gamut of feelings --compassionate, mischievous, loving and righteous. It's what's made his poetry one of the solid bodies of work that's emerged from the North American West since the 60's."

-Jack Hirschman

"Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's moving new collection of poems, In What Disappears, reveals that he remains an extraordinarily profound poet of prayer and praise. His tradition is that of the spiritual mendicant, the perpetual wanderer, the seeker who travels the raw paths of experience in search of the world's wisdoms. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope."

-David St. John