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By Clifford Brooks

Poetry. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and Georgia writer of the yr, Clifford Brooks's first booklet of poetry captures the southern event with poems that Dinty Moore calls "a jazzy, fragrant, and lively poetic mandala."

Clifford Brooks has a heritage measure from Shorter collage. he's a Pushcart Prize nominee and The Draw of damaged Eyes and Whirling Metaphysics is his first significant paintings. He lives in Athens, GA.

Whirling Metaphysics is a jazzy, fragrant, and lively poetic mandala. 'Notice what you notice,' Ginsberg advised, and Clifford Brooks does simply that, with conscious cognizance to each aspect of human lifestyles. get pleasure from lifestyles, his appealing poems remind us, simply because existence is all we have now. -Dinty Moore

As Keats should be under the influence of alcohol on phrases, sinking Lethe-wards, so too do Clifford Brooks' photos and wordplay. whereas the areas the poet rambles are large and sundry, and little that's attractive or gruesome escapes his awareness, he refuses the temptation of cynicism--'dismissing,' as he writes, 'Nietzsche's approach round murdering God's wonder...whispering we're not damned.' A poet of destructive strength, Brooks embraces the formal and the informal, the exuberant and the melancholic, the lengthy series and brief burst, as he's taking us in his double-volume debut, on a visit 'In the mind's eye/ with no map, compass busted.' From Etta James to Baudelaire, Yeats to Faulkner to the Beats, Miles Davis to Monet, from L.A. to Tupelo to Savannah, it is a wild experience and one that is absolute to follow you lengthy after bold to leap in. -Chad Prevost

Like Samuel Taylor Coleridge's mariner, we're in a maelstrom of many names. Cliff Brooks calls this maddening position Ignoracium and in Whirling Metaphysics he provides us either a lexicon for exploring and discovering a manner out. The spirits of Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti are alive and stressed the following. -James Morrow

The magnum opus of the gathering is a poem entitled, The Gateman's Hymn of Ignoracium. it truly is the following that Dante, the Waste Land of Eliot, Ovid, and Cicero merge right into a specific voice. Brooks recognizes this in his shut research of sin, redemption, and the monsters which are born among. -Joe Milford

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