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Preorder now. Available November 10.
Mountains have fascinated New Mexico poet and artist John Brandi since his early childhood trips to the Sierra Nevada, when his parents gave him a sketchpad and encouraged him to draw and write about what moved him. Decades later, we’re happy to publish The Diamond Other: Mountain Poems / New & Selected, featuring poems that revisit mountains past and present, local and afar. Complemented with color plates of Brandi’s paintings, these luminous poems move through inner and outer landscapes from the Southwest desert to the Olympics, the Greek islands to the Himalayas. Whether acknowledged for their rugged terrain, spiritual rigors, or silent wonder, each mountainscape in The Diamond Other becomes extraordinary in Brandi’s hands, as his poems journey across earth, time, and distance. If, as Zen Master Dogen said, “mountains are apart from the human world,” these poems invite us in, to walk as mountains walk.
“John Brandi's work has always been one of the most transcendent gifts of artistry and great spirit anyone could ever find.” —Naomi Shihab Nye
Preorder now. Available November 10.
Mountains have fascinated New Mexico poet and artist John Brandi since his early childhood trips to the Sierra Nevada, when his parents gave him a sketchpad and encouraged him to draw and write about what moved him. Decades later, we’re happy to publish The Diamond Other: Mountain Poems / New & Selected, featuring poems that revisit mountains past and present, local and afar. Complemented with color plates of Brandi’s paintings, these luminous poems move through inner and outer landscapes from the Southwest desert to the Olympics, the Greek islands to the Himalayas. Whether acknowledged for their rugged terrain, spiritual rigors, or silent wonder, each mountainscape in The Diamond Other becomes extraordinary in Brandi’s hands, as his poems journey across earth, time, and distance. If, as Zen Master Dogen said, “mountains are apart from the human world,” these poems invite us in, to walk as mountains walk.
“John Brandi's work has always been one of the most transcendent gifts of artistry and great spirit anyone could ever find.” —Naomi Shihab Nye