The World, The World
AUTHOR
John Brandi
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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John Brandi (b. Los Angeles, 1943) grew up in California, whose coast, mountains and deserts impacted his early life. After graduating from Cal State Northridge (1965), he worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer with Quechua farmers in the Ecuadorian Andes. In 1971 he moved to New Mexico, where he still resides. A recipient a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry, he is an ardent traveler, with dozens of publications issued at home and abroad. Recent books include: The Way to Thorong La (Empty Bowl Press), The Great Unrest (White Pine Press) and Into the Dream Maze, limited-edition haibun poems with hand-colored drawings (Palace Press, Santa Fe). In 2017 he received a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award for A House By Itself: Selected Haiku of Masaoka Shiki (White Pine Press). Brandi has made a living on his craft: teaching, lectures on poetry, haiku and the spirit of travel, and by assisting students in writing programs abroad.