Melody in Exile

"The soul is more a precipice than an entity. Brant, in this adamant and tender collection, designs a grammar for that precipice--participial, declarative and headlong. His clarity is thrilling; his candor is very nearly unprecedented. These poems are marvelous." -Donald Revell "I applaud the voice of S. T. Brant in these poems that trust in depth, believe in conversations through time, in artistic pursuit, believe, despite everything, in search for truth even-or, perhaps, especially, in our pai