Those Who Know Us Best Don't Know Us At All

by Tim Bryant, M. Brett Gaffney, Leela Bryant (Photographer)

Part poetry, part photography. An eighteenth century Indian warrior named El Mocho the Maimed, a Civil War Confederate soldier named Mustache Bill and a modern day neurotic named Tim Bryant on an astral journey that starts in a small cabin in the wilds of Spanish-ruled Tejas and ends in post-Katrina New Orleans. The miles, years and events that fall in between are as historically accurate as they are unbelievable.Tim Bryant takes readers on a complex and deeply intimate exploration of love through the lenses of time, history, life, death, brokenness, and redemption with a surreal edge like Ginsberg and a handling of imagery that evokes the verse ofLevine. Taste words together like Iron Horse smiles like a man/finding a hidden/word in the x-ray/picture of his own/black lung/ and know that few mediums can reveal the human spirit like the art of poetry. This is one of my favorite books of poetry EVER."Bob Feld

132 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 2013

About the author

Tim Bryant published his first novel DUTCH CURRIDGE in 2010, and followed it with three more in the series: SOUTHERN SELECT (2013), SPIRIT TRAP (2014) and OLD MOTHER CURRIDGE (2016). He was named one of the Top Five Texas Authors of 2014 by BookPeople in Austin, TX. Tim's novel CONSTELLATIONS was released by Behooven Press in April of 2015. His first Wilkie John Western, A WORLD OF HURT is released by Kensington Books in December, 2017.

Tim also writes and records music, having released albums under his own name, 2Take Tim, Othy and with the international band Ramshackle Day Parade.

He says his heart lives in New Orleans, his head in East Texas. He currently resides with his head and visits his heart whenever possible. He has two kids and two ex wives. He loves them all.