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POETRY
120 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $20.00 (US $20.00) (CA $27.05)
Publication Date: November 2015
ISBN 9781931824613
Rights: WOR
Roof Books (Nov 2015)
The 18 suites of poems that make up Antisocial Patience are a kind of diary of days lived in the aftermath of political upheaval, when it’s quiet. Solidarity’s subsided, the torn-open world of possibilities has shut back down. But something’s changed; the poet has found God. There are hymns and psalms and sonnets and syllabics here; canticles and macaronic verse, little ABAB stanzas and Oakland argot with a King James twist. They are sidewalk-poems, working-in-bookstore poems; restricted and devotional, utterly compact and wide-water open. What if Bartleby had had a giant heart? What if Hopkins had fought the cops? Throw your phone away, the poems suggest; cry out your name in the street. Your friends will find you anyway, and you’ll remember that you’re really here.—Chris Nealon
David Brazil was born in New York and lives in California. His first full-length book was The Ordinary. Chapbook publications include Spy Wednesday and Meet Me Beneath The War Angels. With Sara Larsen, he published over sixty issues of the xerox periodical TRY! He organizes free education through the Bay Area Public School, attends church at Taylor Memorial United Methodist in West Oakland, and makes his living as a bookseller.