Bøger af John Brandi

“They are a form of language on landscape, a form of inscape, that, intimate and moving, are also arresting and revelatory.”— Arthur Sze A Luminous Uplift is a rich compendium of John Brandi’s new and selected prose spanning four decades of investigative travels through the American Southwest to the far reaches of the Himalaya. John Brandi’s selection of writings over the last four decades opens with his awakening to landscape and poetry during his upbringing in California, his counterculture years in the Sixties, and his Peace Corps work with indigenous farmers in the Andes. Essays on his multiple visits to India, Sikkim and Nepal, with vivid descriptions of Khajuraho’s erotic temples, the ritual dances of Kerala, the monasteries of the Himalaya, move from the physical landscape to the literary, with his discovery of Ghalib’s poetry and his reflections on Baudelaire while lost in the crowds of Mumbai. Brandi roves in these pages from the sky villages of Hopi, the Deer Dance of Taos, walkabouts with Japanese poet Nanao Sakaki, to his practice of haiku in the New Mexico mesa lands he has made his home.

These poems illuminate a lifetime of travels as well as the intimate landscape of New Mexico, his homeland for fifty years.

Brandi's collection reflects his keen ear, offbeat humor, spiritual insight, and love for all that illuminates the mind and heart.

A dazzling new collection by this well-known poet/traveler from the American Southwest.

"Brandi gives us poems of rare precision, charm and truth."--Joanne Kyger

Poetry. A major collection of Brandi's work, spanning nearly thirty years of travel--from early poems written in South America to those from India, Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, the Arctic, the North American outback, the deep solitude of New Mexico's mountains, and always from the continent of the heart. "Brandi's sandy poem mandalas, crisscrossing back and forth on their own paths, begin to fill out landscapes in depth"--Gary Snyder.