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Product Description: Poetry. From the afterword: "As poets, we found Cuba's contradictions, juxtapositions, mystery and sensuality provocative and inviting. Traveling family-to-family across the island, our psyches and our poetry were transformed, not by people wanting to leave Cuba for the material promises of life elsewhere, but by those whose priority was to stay...read more
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9781893003217 | Tres Chicas Books, April 16, 2016, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Poetry.
Product Description: In The World, the World John Brandi takes his cues from the works of Chinese painters, the travels of Basho, and the plain speech of his "shack-simple" contemporaries. His poems distill the essence of his travels in the American high desert, Japan, India, the Himalayas, and blend them with his life at home in the mountains of New Mexico...read more
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9781935210504 | White Pine Pr, October 15, 2013, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In The World, the World John Brandi takes his cues from the works of Chinese painters, the travels of Basho, and the plain speech of his "shack-simple" contemporaries.
Product Description: Poetry. "A student looking at modern haiku for the first time often asks, 'Why does haiku look like it does today? What happened to the rules?' A simple answer, to quote Zen teacher Joko Beck, is: 'A good practice is always undermining itself...read more
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9781888809602 | LA Alameda Pr, March 15, 2011, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Poetry.
Product Description: âThese poems shine with a Taoist sensibility and the wisdom and simplicity of self. John Brandi, as a traveler throughout Asia and the Americas, gives us the artistâs heightened sensitivity and clarity of detail; and poems of rare precision, charm and truth...read more
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9781893996229 | White Pine Pr, September 1, 2008, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: âThese poems shine with a Taoist sensibility and the wisdom and simplicity of self.
Product Description: Poetry. Fiction. Travel. WATER SHINING BEYOND THE FIELDS focuses on travel in Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Southern China, and Thailand, presented in the haibun form, celebrated by the Japanese poet Basho in the 17th century. John Brandi defines the form in his latest book: "Haibun might traditionally be regarded as a series of en situ prose descriptions concluded by a haiku...read more
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9781893003095 | Tres Chicas Books, January 1, 2006, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Poetry.
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9781893996380 | White Pine Pr, November 1, 2005, cover price $15.00
Product Description: Spanning the years since the 1995 publication of Heartâs 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781893996632 | 1 edition (White Pine Pr, April 1, 2003), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Spanning the years since the 1995 publication of Heartâs Geography: New & Selected Poems, these poems traverse distant lands, as well as the continent of the heart.
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9781889921082 | Western Edge Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $14.95
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9781888809176 | LA Alameda Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $12.00
Product Description: These poems, quick-flash snippets culled from several years of writings--in solitude, while traveling, in work-a-day routines or high-country switchbacks--spring from a tradition as old as the Japanese poet Basho and still just as lively...read more
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9780963190918 | LA Alameda Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: These poems, quick-flash snippets culled from several years of writings--in solitude, while traveling, in work-a-day routines or high-country switchbacks--spring from a tradition as old as the Japanese poet Basho and still just as lively.
Product Description: A major collection of Brandiâs work, spanning nearly thirty years of travelâ 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 Mexicoâs mountains, and always from the continent of the heart...read more
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9781877727405 | White Pine Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A major collection of Brandiâs work, spanning nearly thirty years of travelâ 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 Mexicoâs mountains, and always from the continent of the heart.
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9780879240677 | Light and Dust, May 1, 1995, cover price $15.00
Product Description: Book by Brandi, John
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9780879240707 | Light and Dust, December 1, 1992, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: Book by Brandi, John
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9780933532823 | Bkmk Pr/Umkc, August 1, 1991, cover price $9.50
Product Description: In its lyricism and rich detail, this collection of sixteen meditations is very much in the tradition of Joseph Wood Krutch's The Desert Year. In the author's knowing hands, the desert landscape of the American Southwest and northern New Mexico is lifted into the realm of magic: shamans float in the arid air and flowers bloom blindingly bright after a desert rain...read more
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9780930100407 | Holy Cow Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: In its lyricism and rich detail, this collection of sixteen meditations is very much in the tradition of Joseph Wood Krutch's The Desert Year.
Product Description: These poems move out from the Southwestern desert to use the world as a locale for exploration and expression, from Mexico, Alaska, and San Francisco, to Benares, India and also the New Mexico State Penitentiary. Moving from place to place, revealing both political protest and the solace of love, Brandi creates a sense of a surreal that frees the reader from the limitations of the ordinary...read more
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9780930100278 | Holy Cow Pr, March 1, 1988, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: These poems move out from the Southwestern desert to use the world as a locale for exploration and expression, from Mexico, Alaska, and San Francisco, to Benares, India and also the New Mexico State Penitentiary.
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9780686153016 | Great Raven Pr Review, June 1, 1986, cover price $3.00
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9780940510128 | Tooth of Time Books, November 1, 1985, cover price $5.00
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9780914728436 | Bookpeople, April 1, 1985, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Book by Brandi, John
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9780912449081 | Floating Island Pub, February 1, 1983, cover price $6.95
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9780940510050 | Bookpeople, December 1, 1982, cover price $6.00 | About this edition: book
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