{"product_id":"9780872867147","title":"Holy Ghost","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe third full-length collection from poet-scholar-activist David Brazil, \u003ci\u003eHoly Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e is a hymnal with secular burdens, poured from the mold of our actual life in common, sung against its limits. It seeks a way to find and build a soul together, and records the seekers' findings along the way, proposing love as our common human denominator. A record of the author's struggle to forge a relationship between two distinct vocations—one historical, as an activist (with Occupy Oakland, among other projects), and one spiritual, as he explores the path of radical Christian discipleship (in his life as a pastor)—\u003ci\u003eHoly Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e attempts to articulate an understanding of where class struggle meets the will of God.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Brazil\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, translator, and novelist. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Ordinary\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eantisocial patience\u003c\/i\u003e. With Kevin Killian, he edited the \u003ci\u003eKenning Anthology of Poets Theater 1945-1985\u003c\/i\u003e. From 2008 to 2011 he published over sixty issues of the seminal \u003ci\u003eTRY!\u003c\/i\u003e magazine with Sara Larsen. David co-pastors a house church in Oakland and works for social justice with the Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy. He's a Scorpio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eHoly Ghost:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the special books of this decade and should be read by Souls or Ghosts or \u003ci\u003eGeists\u003c\/i\u003e in search of assurance … Brazil's \u003ci\u003eHoly Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e is as Romantic as a long poem by Percy Shelley. An act of beauty—breath-taking. As unexpected as A.N. Whitehead's \u003ci\u003eFunction of Reason\u003c\/i\u003e and Christian Morgenstern's nonsense poetry. Brazil brings to mind the tenseless, non-subjective (not centered on the 'I' figure), and numberless of some Asian languages. I free-float in the presence of this wholly Kindness-Ghost as I would float in a Navajo world—like that world, the surrounding is strange and natural. Bask in it … Slip in or out of it … Any muscular ring or reflection in, on, or part of the \u003ci\u003eHoly Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e, is the Ghost. The \u003ci\u003eHoly Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e shimmers with Jack Kerouac's Blues, and on the page (typographically) can be as precise as Diane di Prima's poetry and Leslie Scalapino's … It's not impossible to hear Kurt Cobain humming in the background.\"—\u003cb\u003eMichael McClure\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"All singing is contemporaneous in the heart, \u0026amp; thus I'd call \u003ci\u003eHoly Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e heart-felt. It keeps time with the forms of its devotion, touching various eras of diction, prayer \u0026amp; song \u0026amp; verse \u0026amp; hymn. In the mind then, all at once, it does becomes a work of love; for the reader, for paths of grace \u0026amp; liberation, \u0026amp; for the singing that refuses to abide our time but takes its measure, day by day, in wounded, contemplative poems. Everywhere it must be poor it is. It comes to us in penury because the search for company \u0026amp; love is the struggle of students \u0026amp; poets who seeks out such wealth in an era when they're ever more in peril. So it arrives rich, by which I mean empty handed, \u0026amp; so doing makes the book into a little ball of light, a trove of mercy's tone, \u0026amp; my heart's treasure.\"—\u003cb\u003eDana Ward\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"'When time is the instrument, grace is the measure,' writes David Brazil, in this dazzling book of 'earthly liturgy.' These poems of glorification, joyful and solemn, speak to the erasure of the boundary between mrtam\/amrtam (death\/non-death) and recall Blake’s \u003ci\u003eSongs of Innocence and Experience\u003c\/i\u003e as well as Robert Duncan’s \u003ci\u003eHeavenly City Earthly City\u003c\/i\u003e. With clarity and infinite finesse, the rhythms and tensile swing of Brazil’s writing direct hymn’s availability, from today’s idiomatic speech to a yesteryear of sermon and rune. Every note counts.\"—\u003cb\u003eNorma Cole\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032212881648,"sku":"9780872867147","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780872867147_p0.jpg?v=1763842133","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780872867147","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}