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Letters To Guns represents a collection of poems that examine the para-physical natures of love and history, at times re-imagining both. As the poems progress, eight letters arrive written by non-human addressees (a nightgown, a grove of trees, a wooden spoon, others) at random points over the last 2,200 years. They are messages from home and pleas for understanding, warnings and promises of change. These in turn ignite other poems and themes which anticipate the next arrival. Taken together, the letters form an armature, a living skeleton fleshed by real and metaphenomenal experience. Throughout, a variety of styles appear and no single approach to poetry pervades. Singly, these poems should challenge and entertain. As a group they must transform and evolve our experience of sitting down with a book of poems.
- Sales Rank: #2143106 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-01-01
- Released on: 2012-01-01
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Review
“Brendan Constantine’s is one of the most astonishing poets to come from over from America. His work is informed by great empathy and technical skill, hysterical wit and painful sensitivity. He possesses a wholly original style, never resting on a single means of creating poetry. No two poems are remotely alike and all are captivating. We wish we could keep him here!” Literary London Magazine “Brendan Constantine is a whirlwind of a performer. He has a sure sense of the absurd, and a comedian's timing. I have been wowed by Brendan more times than I can count. He is one of my favorite SoCal poets; I see him every chance I get, and I am never disappointed.” G. Murray Thomas Poetic Diversity “ Brendan Constantine is a poet’s poet. He sees life through a unique prism: at once lucid, elegant, and deeply humanistic.” Julia Cameron International best selling author of The Artist’s Way “Brendan Constantine is poised to be a major force in Southern California poetry in the next millennia. His work combines hip sensibilities, emotional resonance, humor and keen intellect. I cannot recommend him highly enough.” Laurel Ann Bogen Poet
“Constantine is one of the finest performers in the [poetry] scene. I am amazed by the brilliant word pictures that flash in and out of his dream logic. The abstract melodies and the primitive rhythms in his poetry. The raw emotional vulnerability of his performance work. It is obvious that Constantine is the real thing.” Daniel McGinn OC Weekly “Brendan Constantine is a strange, strange man, and his poetry is even stranger. There is a manic surrealism engulfing the characters who populate his poems. He is clearly odd, but he’s also brilliant. It’s hysterical that he can title a poem Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Photograph of Mussolini and get away with it. Behind the biting wit and the silliness are our miseries - and a world that is often stark raving mad.” Victor Infante OC Weekly “Brendan Constantine landed on the moon all by himself. A national holiday!” Scott Wannberg Poet "Tell me what you know," and Brendan Constantine will offer you something you don't know, in his astonishing debut book, Letters To Guns. Not since James Tate have we seen a poet so inventive or voracious in topic, in spirit and in imagination. Embracing a wide range of diction, Constantine's poetry bears live witness to what Magritte once called the "symbolic decline of society" within a world seen as a "defiance of common sense." Here, like Kafka's aesthetic shock and like the humor found in art's Dada movement, this book reminds us we are both spectator and accomplice. With unforeseen affinities between character and object, reality and dream, history and the present tense, Constantine's personified 'letters,' awaken surprise with exciting tightrope transition. Letters To Guns accomplishes beauty and despair where stars hold "each other at gunpoint," where the paradoxical is nothing less than irresistible.
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About the Author
Brendan Constantine was born in Los Angeles and grew up there, the second child of two working actors. His parents placed great value on the arts, going so far as to name him for Irish playwright Brendan Behan. Before pursuing his MFA degree at Vermont college Constantine had already toured the US and Europe, published extensively, and been finalist for three major poetry awards.
His work has appeared in numerous journals, most notably Ploughshares, The Los Angeles Review, Artlife, The Cortland Review, The Cider Press Review, Directions, RUNES, StellaZine and LA Times Best-seller The Underground Guide To Los Angeles. His first official book-length collection, Letters To Guns, is due out this Spring from Red Hen Press.
He is the creator of Industrial Poetry, a workshop for adults and teens struggling with writer’s block, and is currently poet in residence at both the Windward School in west Los Angeles and the Idyllwild Arts Summer Youth Writing program in Idyllwild California.
A regular participant in both the Los Angeles and Orange County Poetry Festivals, Brendan has enjoyed an active role in southern California’s poetry communities. He is a three time finalist for the National Poetry Series and in 2002 was nominated by the Poetry Super Highway for poet laureate of the state of California.
There is no single approach to poetry in Constantine’s view, no school of style. In a recent interview with G. Murray Thomas of Next Magazine, Constantine says, “Every poem is different. Every poem requires something different from its poet. When I think of it, I imagine that the poem exists as a complete but invisible impulse, an entity just outside our heads, spinning slowly or quickly in the air, until it is translated into some physical arrangement. If we get it right, it allows itself to be unspooled onto the page. Every poet is thus a translator charged with re-expressing what the phenomenal world has already expressed to us.”
For Constantine there are no set means for this translation and there cannot be so long as our language continues to change. A poem may require that you carefully count out its rhythms and break its lines after six beats. Or it may need you to let it move everywhere and run on for pages regardless of meter. It may be whispered or shouted or only read silently in one place at one time. It may stack itself like a list or lay down in a paragraph. “When we argue the legitimacy of one form before another we have likely hit a wall creatively and begun to discriminate out of fear.”
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Read first, ask questions later.
By J. A. Sanderson
I love this book. Alan Ginsberg and Ogden Nash would be jealous. I'm not a huge fan of poetry, more a medium fan. Many contemporary poets are convoluted, hard to understand or talk about their own angst like we should all pity them. Constantine's capacity for empathy and concise humorous word twists make the reader feel like a brilliant insider. His work is unrivaled and exciting, far exceeding the flat intellectual salt free processed crackers of poetry we were all fed in High School English. Brendan Constantine's poetry is a great meal without whine. I want more.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
"...the burning of maps"
By M. Kramer
Forever, change has been constant. But the level of change, the degree of change just now seems beyond to much to comprehend. Constantine's book is full of lines so relevant to this post-at-least-cubed -modern world. One favorite perhaps comes early, in the first of his "guns" poems, "Letter IV" (in a work which stands against reason, why shouldn't "IV" be first?) -- "It seems the essence of war / has become the burning of maps."
Constantine's surrealism or ultra-modernism or whatever makes more and more sense as one enters and move around in this world. Once one enters Dali's desert, one comes to realize that time is melting.
This stands as one of the best, most fresh collections I've read this year. Arguably, Constantine's is the only poetry collection I've read recently that could change the face of poetry.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A Master Piece!
By kk
Constantine delivers a collection that is sophisticated, complex and shows us all that surrealism is not dead, but alive, well and especially relevant. This is an original collection, unlike any other poetry today. He makes quiet observations and stark emotional confessions, painting with broad strokes the whole while. The reader laughs often, but is continuously surprised by facts, taking many poems far into his day. This book will make the reader think, but not in way he has done before. There aren't many poets out there who own as distinctive a voice. Do you know how many letters the gun has received since its invention? Peruse such history and learn about the state of humanity today. This book is a glimpse of the future of poetry.
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