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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? 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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","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51055476539665,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51055478997265,"sku":"NIN9781888996159","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52664392778001,"sku":"NLS9781888996159","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1888996153.jpg?v=1751380064"},{"product_id":"before-the-storm-takes-it-away-book-gaylord-brewer-9781636281360","title":"Before the Storm Takes It Away","description":"InBefore the Storm Takes It Away, Gaylord Brewer steps away from poetry in these short explorations in nonfiction-alternately dark, wry, contemplative, and explosive, what begins as a seasonal experiment in genre becomes, when March 2020 brings a suddenly altered world, a whole different beast.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51648636158225,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51648636387601,"sku":"NIN9781636281360","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52584152072465,"sku":"NLS9781636281360","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52815207989521,"sku":"CIN1636281362G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1636281362.jpg?v=1751151961"},{"product_id":"worship-the-pig-book-gaylord-brewer-9781597098526","title":"Worship the Pig","description":"Worship the Pig, Gaylord Brewer’s eleventh collection, is by the poet’s own definition his “Americas book.” The migration begins from his Tennessee home to the Inside Passage of Alaska, then detours sharply south in a return to his beloved Costa Rica, then onward finally to the qualified paradise of Brazil’s Ilhabela. Brewer’s persistent obsessions—translating the call and challenge of the feral world, negotiating some truce with private ghosts—have never been more poignantly and sharply drawn. From chiseled lyrics to more expansive narratives—by turns reserved and raucous, always heartfelt and riveting—these new poems exhilarate. “No schematic for conquest, \/ no reckless conclusions, \/\/ no tenuous argument for connection \/ beyond the simple truth \/ of what accrues together.” At mid-career, the author called “the most natural poet in the country” by the Asheville Poetry Review continues to astonish.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52674115830033,"sku":"NLS9781597098526","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53403204288785,"sku":"NIN9781597098526","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781597098526.jpg?v=1762298780"},{"product_id":"barbaric-mercies-book-gaylord-brewer-9781888996678","title":"Barbaric Mercies","description":"\"Gaylord Brewer’s Barbaric Mercies is a book of extraordinary and delightful individuality. Alternately aggressive, outrageous, whimsical, and heartfelt, the poems are never predictable but always authentic. The author has such a genius for phrasing that there are many lines that make the reader stop and sigh or smile. A dark and delicious volume.\"      —Dana Gioia                   \"Barbaric Mercies, Mr. Brewer’s finest book of poems yet, seamlessly weaves a rich tapestry between landscape and longing, the poet’s big heart for language and his voracious appetite for making an impact on this life. This is a visionary collection, a lasting celebration to travel, leaving familiar turf for the unfamiliar, reveling in the simple beauty of words, gestures, images. If there is anything 'barbaric' about this book and these poems, it is their striving to make an indelible impact on our consciousness as readers. Their taking hold of our imaginations and our moods hearkens back to Whitman’s 'barbaric yawp,' that shouting\/singing only the best poets seem to do rather effortlessly and with resounding ability.\"          —Virgil Suárez","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52675664806161,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52675665723665,"sku":"NLS9781888996678","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781888996678.jpg?v=1762302427"},{"product_id":"octavius-the-1st-book-gaylord-brewer-9781597090827","title":"Octavius the 1st","description":"Admirers of Gaylord Brewer’s dark and lyrical poetry will be delightfully stunned by this frantic detour into fiction, Octavius the 1st. 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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 delivered—of course—tastefully.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53015010902289,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53015011098897,"sku":"NIN9781622880652","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781622880652.jpg?v=1768157650"},{"product_id":"goodbye-baby-book-gaylord-brewer-9781961127210","title":"Goodbye, Baby","description":"\u003cp\u003eA comprehensive overview of the biology and ecology of sea urchins and their relatives, known collectively as Echinoidea. 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