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Let Me Explain
Let Me Explain by Gaylord Brewer is a book of poetry in three sections.
The Poet's Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire
Gaylord Brewer's The Poet's Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire is an immediately delightful and surprising work by one of this country's best poets. Indeed, the poet himself calls this book a "quirky volume," the genesis being the desire to create something substantially different and sustained. Since food "had been increasingly creeping into my poetry," Brewer writes, and because he had been asked to write anecdotally about recipes by a journal editor, this unusual memoir took shape. As is the example of his best poems, these recipes are every bit as enjoyable, memorable, and delivered--of course--tastefully.
Before the Storm Takes It Away
In Before the Storm Takes It Away, Gaylord Brewer steps away from poetry in these short explorations in nonfiction--alternately dark, wry, contemplative, and explosive, what begins as a seasonal experiment in genre becomes, when March 2020 brings a suddenly altered world, a whole different beast.
Worship the Pig
"Worship the Pig, Gaylord Brewer's eleventh collection, is by the poet's own definition his "Americas book." The migration begins from his Tennessee home to the Inside Passage of Alaska, then detours sharply south in a return to his beloved Costa Rica, then onward finally to the qualified paradise of Brazil's Ilhabela. Brewer's persistent obsessions-translating the call and challenge of the feral world, negotiating some truce with private ghosts-have never been more poignantly and sharply drawn. From chiseled lyrics to more expansive narratives-by turns reserved and raucous, always heartfelt and riveting-these new poems exhilarate. "No schematic for conquest, / no reckless conclusions, // no tenuous argument for connection / beyond the simple truth / of what accrues together." At mid-career, the author called "the most natural poet in the country" by the Asheville Poetry Review continues to astonish"--
Country of Ghost
Gaylord Brewer's ninth collection of poetry, Country of Ghost, is by turns harrowing, haunted, and darkly humorous, and always deeply felt. When the figure Ghost appears--crossing a bridge in Spain, beside a river of the dead in France, across a midnight lake in Finland--our speaker follows into a ravenous geography of longing and regret. In this astounding sequence of poems, who has summonsed whom? Brewer's folie à deux explores both the worlds of the living and of the dead, worlds alternately aching and tender, and of the spirits caught between them.
Give Over, Graymalkin
From python hunting to Swami Keerti s laughing meditation, from a death in the family to a burial on the rural acres where he s stood his ground for a decade, Gaylord Brewer extends and explodes his career-long obsessions in Give Over, Graymalkin. This 8th collection of poems is a journal of loss and recovery, departure and surprising return, fleeting hours in a world diminished yet wondrous. Seas writhe with uncharted beasts. Horsemen gather, conflagrant beneath sword and cross. A daughter mounts a bicycle and a divorce has the Harley delivered. From India to France to Spain, to the birdsong and day lilies of his unruly garden, Brewer continues as poetic conquistador mapping our longing, melancholy, and joy. With his characteristic wit and compassion, signature sculpted lines, and incantatory vigor, buried metaphors arise, holy days pass, toasts are raised, suns set over the desert of the animate dead. And the weary traveler? He approaches a dark corridor that may or may not be the way home. "
Naming the Father
Naming the Father is a collection of essays on the subject of fatherhood: its enduring power, its secret ruses, its unsettling provocations. Despite the considerable critical attention devoted to motherhood in literature-and despite the late-twentieth-century focus on patriarchy-there is surprisingly no comparable collection on fatherhood. This volume was born of the conclusion that critics of modern and contemporary literature may comprehend the father too little for presuming to have comprehended patriarchy so much. Naming the Father begins with a series of nonfiction essays that attempts to locate the missing father in the individual experiences of three scholars at various stages of thei...
The Martini Diet
"There's a feeling of peace to these poems, a calmness of deliberation in their rhythms, sa curiosity that doesn't tear or probe so much as wash across Brewer's subjects. The masterful tempo of his work convinces me that what he says is what must be said, thought and emotion unfolding in natural order. I enjoy his imagery, am drawn to the self revealed, but it's the breath of this book that I believe."-Bob Hicok; "One of our best poets, Gaylord Brewer, is at the top of his game in The Martini Diet. In one poem, the speaker calls himself "note taker of the exotic." In truth, from the exotic to the everyday, the book explores a wide range of subjects with both wit and wisdom, that lovely, rare combination. I'll down as many martinis as this accomplished brew-master can serve up, and bang the table for more. And the next morning, the next, the next, I'll remember the wonderful words and images in all their vivid detail. Here's to the pleasure that awaits the reader-drink up!"-James Doyle
