Brian D Ambrosio Book Quotes

“Time
concocted by caffeine
unnervingly familiar
a ferociousness that sucks you in
even as it wears you down”
― Brian D'Ambrosio

“There is such a quiet desperation and chronic sense of dullness to Helena, Montana, which makes it the most socially grotesque and culturally bitter of any of the capital cities.”
― Brian D'Ambrosio, Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008

“The heart is only grain and goats
and the price of health
it cleans it rifles
smokes its herbs
breaks out a beer bottle or two
its precious radios
strapped up for protection
with ragged black tape”
― Brian D'Ambrosio, Halcyon Days and Stormy Months: 21 Poems

“Old and cold. High rates of suicide and prescription drug abuse. Look at the inbred faces at the grocery stores and coffee shops, the exercise-deficient kids, the routinized state workers, the sun-deprived adults and isolated third and fourth generation sad cases who've never experienced a meal outside of Lewis and Clark County. Make no mistake; Helena, Montana is old and cold and the rigid, sick antithesis of living.”
― Brian D'Ambrosio, Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008