Life Death Love and Babies

<p><em>LIFE DEATH LOVE and BABIES</em> is a roadside monument to the totality of life. Spanning roughly ten years of David Brehmer's life this prismatic collection casts a meditative gaze on everything from trauma to gun violence to parenthood to music to time itself offering moments large and small an equal share of the spotlight. It is a celebration an investigation a memorial sketched with curiosity and concision.</p><p>Rob Lipton former poet laureate says David Brehmer loves life the full-blooded travesty...disappointment loss love but embracing it ecstatically celebrating the everythingness of existence. And Quan Barry award-winning author and UW poetry professor remarks <em>Life Death Love and Babies </em>reminds us of the wonder that is our birthright if we would only pay attention.</p><p>It is a collection alternately riotous and reverent but all told with a reflective eye a patient heart and unflinching honesty.</p>