The Draw of Broken Eyes and Whirling Metaphysics by Clifford Brooks

Poetry. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and Georgia writer of the yr, Clifford Brooks's first booklet of poetry captures the southern event with poems that Dinty Moore calls "a jazzy, fragrant, and lively poetic mandala."

Clifford Brooks has a heritage measure from Shorter collage. he's a Pushcart Prize nominee and The Draw of damaged Eyes and Whirling Metaphysics is his first significant paintings. He lives in Athens, GA.

Whirling Metaphysics is a jazzy, fragrant, and lively poetic mandala. 'Notice what you notice,' Ginsberg advised, and Clifford Brooks does simply that, with conscious consciousness to each side of human lifestyles. get pleasure from existence, his attractive poems remind us, simply because existence is all we have now. -Dinty Moore

As Keats might be inebriated on phrases, sinking Lethe-wards, so too do Clifford Brooks' photographs and wordplay. whereas the locations the poet rambles are broad and sundry, and little that's appealing or grotesque escapes his realization, he refuses the temptation of cynicism--'dismissing,' as he writes, 'Nietzsche's approach round murdering God's wonder...whispering we're not damned.' A poet of adverse strength, Brooks embraces the formal and the informal, the exuberant and the melancholic, the lengthy series and brief burst, as he is taking us in his double-volume debut, on a visit 'In the mind's eye/ with no map, compass busted.' From Etta James to Baudelaire, Yeats to Faulkner to the Beats, Miles Davis to Monet, from L.A. to Tupelo to Savannah, it is a wild journey and one that is certain to persist with you lengthy after bold to leap in. -Chad Prevost

Like Samuel Taylor Coleridge's mariner, we're in a maelstrom of many names. Cliff Brooks calls this maddening position Ignoracium and in Whirling Metaphysics he supplies us either a lexicon for exploring and discovering a manner out. The spirits of Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti are alive and stressed the following. -James Morrow

The magnum opus of the gathering is a poem entitled, The Gateman's Hymn of Ignoracium. it's the following that Dante, the Waste Land of Eliot, Ovid, and Cicero merge right into a special voice. Brooks recognizes this in his shut research of sin, redemption, and the monsters which are born among. -Joe Milford

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