Allegories of Love and Disaster

A startling sequence of love poems, remarkable for their unabashed simplicity of emotion and intent, their guileless wisdom.

A triangle of love that uses images and sounds to understand itself – like a baroque variation, complete with canons and reprise elements – Allegories of Love and Disaster can be read in any direction or entered at any point. It is a progression of themes and images which calls into question the idea of progression in life. The naiveté, pain, and romanticism of a youth are challenged, recaptured, celebrated and mourned by the man he grew into. The outcome is a balance sheet of loss and gain, innocence and experience, ephemera and constancy, as the poet learns to keep faith with what was and what is.

“Brett is one of those rare poets who can turn sound into mythology.” —Poetry Canada Review

Poetry • 6 x 9 inches • PB 103 pages • 978-1-55096-069-3