Bøger af Gaylord Brewer

In Before the Storm Takes It Away, Gaylord Brewer steps away from poetry in these short explorations in nonfiction—alternately dark, wry, contemplative, and explosive, what begins as a seasonal experiment in genre becomes, when March 2020 brings a suddenly altered world, a whole different beast.

In this series of intersections with the wild, serendipitous moments abound, small or grand, sought out or fatefully offered. Brewer's unforgettable meditations are by turns whimsical, worshipful, harrowing, and delightful.

"Gaylord Brewer's ninth collection of poetry, Country of Ghost, is by turns harrowing, haunted, and darkly humorous, and always deeply felt. When the figure, Ghost, appears--crossing a bridge in Spain, beside a river of the dead in France, across a midnight lake in Finland--our speaker follows into a ravenous geography of longing and regret. In this astounding sequence of poems, who has summonsed whom? Brewer's folie a deux explores both the worlds of the living and of the dead, worlds alternately aching and tender, and of the spirits caught between them"--

From python hunting to Swami Keerti s laughing meditation, from a death in the family to a burial on the rural acres where he s stood his ground for a decade, Gaylord Brewer extends and explodes his career-long obsessions in Give Over, Graymalkin. This 8th collection of poems is a journal of loss and recovery, departure and surprising return, fleeting hours in a world diminished yet wondrous. Seas writhe with uncharted beasts. Horsemen gather, conflagrant beneath sword and cross. A daughter mounts a bicycle and a divorce has the Harley delivered. From India to France to Spain, to the birdsong and day lilies of his unruly garden, Brewer continues as poetic conquistador mapping our longing, melancholy, and joy. With his characteristic wit and compassion, signature sculpted lines, and incantatory vigor, buried metaphors arise, holy days pass, toasts are raised, suns set over the desert of the animate dead. And the weary traveler? He approaches a dark corridor that may or may not be the way home."

Worship the Pig, Gaylord Brewer's eleventh collection, is by the poet's own definition his ';Americas book.' The migration begins from his Tennessee home to the Inside Passage of Alaska, then detours sharply south in a return to his beloved Costa Rica, then onward finally to the qualified paradise of Brazil's Ilhabela. Brewer's persistent obsessionstranslating the call and challenge of the feral world, negotiating some truce with private ghostshave never been more poignantly and sharply drawn. From chiseled lyrics to more expansive narrativesby turns reserved and raucous, always heartfelt and rivetingthese new poems exhilarate. ';No schematic for conquest, / no reckless conclusions, // no tenuous argument for connection / beyond the simple truth / of what accrues together.' At mid-career, the author called ';the most natural poet in the country' by the Asheville Poetry Review continues to astonish.

"Gaylord Brewer¿s Barbaric Mercies is a book of extraordinary and delightful individuality. Alternately aggressive, outrageous, whimsical, and heartfelt, the poems are never predictable but always authentic. The author has such a genius for phrasing that there are many lines that make the reader stop and sigh or smile. A dark and delicious volume."¿Dana Gioia"Barbaric Mercies, Mr. Brewer¿s finest book of poems yet, seamlessly weaves a rich tapestry between landscape and longing, the poet¿s big heart for language and his voracious appetite for making an impact on this life. This is a visionary collection, a lasting celebration to travel, leaving familiar turf for the unfamiliar, reveling in the simple beauty of words, gestures, images. If there is anything 'barbaric' about this book and these poems, it is their striving to make an indelible impact on our consciousness as readers. Their taking hold of our imaginations and our moods hearkens back to Whitman¿s 'barbaric yawp,' that shouting/singing only the best poets seem to do rather effortlessly and with resounding ability."¿Virgil Suárez

"This book is a brouhaha of fun and cleverness, where many of the poems are double-edged with humor and lasting wisdom. ... These poems are delivered with the perfect clarity of everyday language."¿The Cafe Review"Brewer is the most consistently dark-side-of-the-moon poet around...his...athletic style exactly suits the subject."¿Hugh Fox, Small Press Review (Review of Presently A Beast)"I love the edgy laughter I hear on almost every page...There's a 'camaraderie of betrayal, lust, and song'."¿David Kirby

Gaylord Brewer's The Poet's Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire is an immediately delightful and surprising work by one of US's best poets. Indeed, the poet himself calls this book a "quirky volume," the genesis being the desire to create something substantially different and sustained.

Gaylord Brewer's poetry is aggressive, lyrical, unflinching, playful and compassionate. He surveys and excavates the dark places just beyond the borders of complacency.