Bøger af Brendan Constantine

Poems of human interiors, resonating with the world at large, and with the wider human heart.

Letters To Guns represents a collection of poems that examine the para-physical natures of love and history, at times re-imagining both. As the poems progress, eight letters arrive written by non-human addressees (a nightgown, a grove of trees, a wooden spoon, others) at random points over the last 2,200 years. They are messages from home and pleas for understanding, warnings and promises of change. These in turn ignite other poems and themes which anticipate the next arrival. Taken together, the letters form an armature, a living skeleton fleshed by real and metaphenomenal experience. Throughout, a variety of styles appear and no single approach to poetry pervades. Singly, these poems should challenge and entertain. As a group they must transform and evolve our experience of sitting down with a book of poems.

Slow Lightning: Impractical Poetry peeks into the lives and dreams of well known novelists, memoirists, poets and playwrights. "More than editor, Peggy Dobreer (prize winning poet, former dancer, Somatic practitioner and teaching artist) has served as expert midwife to this collection of poems that emerged from her daily guided meditations and integrated writing prompts. Slow Lightning: Imprtactical Poetry is the result, born at the height of the pandemic and culled from hundreds of these poems, crafted in this setting with unflinching candor, innovative storytelling and mastery. A profoundly satisfying array of poetry to be deeply savored." -- Stephen Reigns, author of A Quilt for David. CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: Dakota Raine Baynham - Maria Berry - Maggie Bloomfield - E.J. Bouinatchov - Diane Sherry Case - Lisbeth Coiman - Brendan Constantine - Peggy Dobreer - Darothy Durkac - Alicia Elkort - Erika Lane Enggren - Janet Fitch - David Francis - MaxieJane Frazier - Mia Goldman - Jacinta Camacho Kaplan - Muriel Karr - Katherine Lansing - Ruthie Marlenée - Roberta H. Martínez - Carrie Nassif - David J Orr . Lucien Zell

"Brendan Constantine is a poet's poet. He sees life through a unique prism: at once lucid, elegant, and deeply humanistic." -- Julia Cameron, The Artist's WayHeartbreaking and hilarious poems reaffirming our youngest conclusions about the world. Known for his dreamy abstraction and the emotional ferocity on the page and on the stage, this is a birthday card from the phenomenal world to our wildest selves. No approach to writing (odes, codes, lectures, letters, tests and attendance sheets) is left unexploited as a means to poetry. This is his second collection.

"As with Constantine's previous titles, Dementia, My Darling can be enjoyed at random or in order. However, when taken in sequence, the poems construct a thesis on life as we remember it from moment to moment. What is your first memory of love? How soon will you forget answering that question?"--