Heartbeat Geography

Book excerpt: A major collection of Brandi's work, spanning nearly thirty years of travel-- from early poems written in South America to those from India, Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, the Arctic, the North American outback, the deep solitude of New Mexico's mountains, and always from the continent of the heart. "Brandi's sandy poem mandalas, crisscrossing back and forth on their own paths, begin to fill out landscapes in depth."-- Gary Snyder