Brambu Drezi [Book II 2 Two]

by Jake Berry

A work of almost two decades, Brambu Drezi is poetry as experience and an unbounded process of imagination. This three-part work is inspired and sourced in fields as diverse as The Old Testament, quantum physics, medieval alchemical texts and grimoires, Marcel Duchamp, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Haitian Vodun, and the music of Hildegaard von Bingen, Bartok, Robert Johnson, and John Coltrane. Berry combines words with drawn, painted and computer-manipulated images to create a deeply spiritual yet unexampled book. At once dark and luminous, it is an ecstatic, visionary work summoning "oliberation in all its forms." Writing about Brambu Drezi Harry Polkinhorn referred to Berry as "the preeminent experimentalist of his generation."

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

First published June 1, 1993

About the author

Jake Berry is a poet, musician and visual artist. The author of Brambu Drezi, Species of Abandoned Light, Drafts of the Sorcery, and numerous other books. He has been an active member of the global arts and literary community for more than 25 years. His poems, fiction, essays, reviews and other writings have been published widely in both print and electonic mediums. In April 2010 Lavender Ink released a collaborative book, Cyclones In High Northern Latitudes, with poet Jeffrey Side and drawings by Rich Curtis.

Berry's solo musical albums include, Liminal Blue, Strange Parlors, Naked as rain and the animal beneath, Shadow Resolve and many others. With Bare Kunckles he has recorded four albums, Trouble In Your House, Alabama Dust, Doppelganger Blues and Root Bound. With the ambinet experimental group Ascension Brothers he has recorded numerous albums including All Souls Banquet, The Wedding Ball and Pillar of Fire (which served as soundtrack for a series of plays by Ray Bradbury) and most recently Transfigurations Blues.

Ongoing projects include book four of Brambu Drezi (which will include a video for each section - the opening sections are available now at YouTube), a collection of short poems, and an online and print biography of the poet and critic Jack Foley.