BRAMBU DREZI

by Jake Berry

Brambu Drezi is a deep reading of late twentieth-century mind. Along with Black Mountain poetry, Beat poetry is one of its antecedents, and Beat poet John Wieners might well have been prophesying this poem when he wrote, Poetry is a trance of make-believe.a condition of gradual loss / of reality until there's only left / this shattering of the world. Not to know Berry's work is to miss something essential and stunningly beautiful about the late 20th Century, what has been called a century of horror, yet Berry, in this great visionary work, mirrors this millennium not only as an end but a beginning.

Genres: Poetry

198 pages, 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.