Bøger af Jerry Bradley

With a respectful, well-traveled eye, Jerry Bradley explores the magical, mythical and mundane of Mexico's cultural expanse, from the sun-baked Southwest to the jutting fist of Tulum. Witty and observant, poignant and sure, these poems peer past the exotic surface of far-flung moments, drawing out the universally human like aguamiel from the heart of a hardy maguey.

These are quiet, intimate, witty conversational poems addressing how the human heart forgets itself under personal injury and the stinging justice of misery, and then, in the poignancy of remembering itself, is reborn again, unyielding, ready for "another waltz at the window, one more dance." If pain is "unresurrected" truth, then healing is "coming back to familiar spots to remember" a world we forgot existed or that we never even expected. Read this book and let your heart be healed.

"If you dare open Jerry Bradley's Rapunzel's Parrot (his 6th book of poems) you will read your eyes out, a fate better than that which befalls the step-sisters of Cinderella and other characters Bradley has recruited from the collections of the Brothers Grimm. In Bradley's reinvention of Mèarchen, he has outdone himself as a poet. His steady voice reminds us just how insignificant we are and that if a transvestite wolf approaches us that is the least of our worries, for Bradley forces us to approach poetry in a way that requires more thought than most of that produced by the poets currently staging a sit-in on Parnassus"--

A dramatic novel from Jerry Bradley. If you had the chance to live again, what would you do?

The Candy Man tells the adventures of James Blake, from a six-year-old adoptee to a 30-something full-blown drug dealer, Triad gang leader and martial arts expert.