In What Disappears: Poems

by Brandi, John

• ISBN13: 9781893996632
• ISBN10: 1893996638
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

Spanning the years since the 1995 publication of Heart's Geography: New & Selected Poems, these poems traverse distant lands, as well as the continent of the heart. In travels that take him through North America, Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, Vietnam, India and Mexico, Brandi engages the world with open eyes, ears and heart. Like Jack Kerouac, he "seeks source and renewal in new geographies and in the act of travel with its inevitable encounters and mysteries. He gets inside and outside things. Nothing passes him by. He's a seer, a person who looks, who retains an abiding curiosity and sympathy with special people and places."-David Meltzer

Table of Contents

Song of the River
Every Road Out is the One Home	13	(1)
Deep Motion Inside	14	(2)
After Li Ch'ing-chao	16	(1)
No Ship Will Ever Take You	17	(1)
Yellow Wind on the Java Sea	18	(1)
From the Balcony	19	(1)
No Superlatives Please	20	(2)
What Dagger, What Thirst?	22	(2)
Illusion You spread Deliciously	24	(1)
Light Seen Directly	25	(3)
Kashi Before Sleep	28	(2)
Mekong Nocturne	30	(1)
Letter from Kathmandu	31	(1)
Song of the Red River	32	(2)
Hang Quat Street	34	(2)
Perhaps	36	(2)
To the Mountain of Perfumed Traces	38	(1)
In What Disappears	39	(1)
I Reconstruct Her as I Touch	40	(3)
Quandary Peak Return	43	(4)
Counterfeit Mirrors
Time is a Bullet	47	(1)
Porquoi Paris	48	(5)
I Almost Started to Say	53	(1)
Earthly Silence Overtakes Me	54	(1)
You Were Here Again Tonight	55	(1)
A Backward Glance	56	(1)
In the Sleep of Remembered Dream	57	(3)
Under a Passing Comet	60	(2)
Words, Engines of Stars	62	(2)
Write the Heaven of Now	64	(1)
The Waking Mudra of Rapture	65	(6)
Architecture of an Instant
After the Hopi Butterfly Dance	71	(1)
October, La Luz Trail	72	(2)
Love is an Act of Time	74	(1)
One for Justin	75	(1)
What the Children Say	76	(1)
Spinning Forward	77	(1)
Arriving after Dark	78	(2)
Yagul	80	(1)
The Zapotec Way	81	(1)
How it Would Be	82	(1)
Nalgas Sagradas	83	(1)
Architecture of an Instant	84	(5)
Geography Lesson
No Rain on the Pass	89	(1)
Late Afternoon Over a Bottle of Sake	90	(1)
Put It All In	91	(1)
My Line of Occupation	92	(2)
Geography Lesson	94	(2)
No Sister of Mercy	96	(2)
Pink Oleander	98	(2)
Uncle Joe	100	(3)
Confession	103	(3)
Final Directions	106	(3)
Notes on the Poems	109	(3)
The Author	112