Research Catalog

Title

Heartbeat geography : selected & uncollected poems / John Brandi.

Author

Brandi, John

Publication

• Fredonia, New York : White Pine Press, [1995]
• ©1995

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Details

Additional Authors

White Pine Press, publisher.

Description

247 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"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"--From Google Books.

Subject

• Brandi, John > Travel > Poetry
• Voyages and travels > Poetry
• American poetry
• Poésie américaine
• American poetry

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Poetry.
• Romans.

Contents

Pascua -- Chuquiribamba, vernal tide -- Mascara on the insomnia's eye -- Good Friday poem -- Morning in San Cristobal -- Toluca Chrysler car -- Untitled Venice -- Poem from the sanitary fill -- America end of the worker's season -- It is spring now -- From the seat of a Farmall Super A tractor -- Smoke -- Looking for minerals -- A night in early autumn -- It will get to be ten below -- Searching for owls on a snowy eve -- Andean town circa 1980 -- Photographic attempt, San Roque market -- Guayaquil - July 22 -- Conch diggers on the Esmeraldas Coast -- Examination of the old -- Time exposure, downriver -- A cathedral in Quito -- Sacha Runa fiesta -- Rite for the beautification of all beings -- Poems at the edge of the day -- We speak to what is blossoming -- Song for Eve -- That which offers itself -- For a girl on the beach of seven towers -- It is a long time since I have asked -- Homage to fire which quenches all thirst -- To you o goddess o light -- For Radha, nightfall -- Monkeys know -- Our geography is heartbeat -- If they ask -- These places, following over -- At Mesa Verde -- The woman who danced over heaven -- Some reasons for the gods -- Angel Peak Overlook : a road song -- Gods eyes for sale -- From desert journals - 1975 -- No matter what road I travel -- Homegoing, after Joaquin's birth -- Turning thirty poem -- Poem, fist day of summer -- Thankyou Joaquin, 7th birthday -- Prayer at the bend of the river -- A song for October -- Winter poem -- A poem for the new year -- Hymn for a night feast -- Woman finding herself -- These things tell me to remember you -- They'll say you're on the wrong road -- A poem for green -- Faces reflecting in ink -- What rite had she? -- Reading Ghost tantras -- Biting the chill -- Preparing the nets at New Stuyahok -- Akeknagik -- 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1+ 1 -- Madrigal, an April morn -- Here, give me your hand -- It is not the you -- Rasa Lila, Kanchipuram -- I am not thinking anything -- Old beast self -- A message from Han Shan -- True love -- A poem for light -- Shadow play -- I see you in a dream -- This language isn't speech -- I saw Kit Carson alive -- At Wovoka's ghostdance place -- To a young student, Blizzard Hill -- North country, a sketch -- For Haysa -- Threnody for Chama Ruiz -- The body burns strong -- To the Burmese Military Regime -- Fragments from insomnia -- Lyric written with both hands -- This poem for Maria still inside -- Journey entry, west of Reno -- About to title a painting for a friend -- Field guide to the body's anatomy -- Song of the talus -- Prologue in the key of c -- To the angel half fire half snow -- Two bodies -- For this we come -- A song for autumn -- Sending out the ghosts -- Natural history of a whitened landscape -- From desert journals -- E train to spring from port authority -- Listen, the promise is hidden -- Of energy, ebony, rosewater & lime -- From Himal journal -- Guess, feel, doubt, brighten the air -- I forgot myself last night -- No superlatives please -- I reconstruct her as I touch -- Turning fifty poem.

ISBN

• 1877727407
• 9781877727405

LCCN

95163198

OCLC

• ocm32485969
• 32485969
• SCSB-2088703

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library