Give Over Graymalkin

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 <i>Give Over Graymalkin</i>. 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 divorcé has the Harley delivered. From India to France to Spain to the birdsong and day lilies of his unruly garden Brewer continues as poetic conquistador mapping our longing melancholy and joy. With his characteristic wit and compassion signature sculpted lines and incantatory vigor buried metaphors arise holy days pass toasts are raised suns set over the desert of the animate dead. And the weary traveler? He approaches a dark corridor that may or may not be the way home.