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...
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...
"This book is a brouhaha of fun and cleverness, where many of the poems are double-edged with humor and lasting wisdom. ... These poems are delivered with the perfect clarity of everyday language."
The Cafe Review
"Brewer is the most consistently dark-side-of-the-moon poet around...his...athletic style exactly suits the subject."
Hugh Fox, Small Press Review (Review of Presently A Beast)
"I love the edgy laughter I hear on almost every page...There's a 'camaraderie of betrayal, lust, and song'."
David Kirby
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"This book is a brouhaha of fun and cleverness, where many of the poems are double-edged with humor and lasting wisdom. ... These poems are deliver...
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...
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...
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...
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...
