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GARY L. BROWER
Gary Brower's impressive collection of poems How A Liar Combs His Hair is an exuberant mix of political satire, travel observations and life adventures. His subjects range wide from humor to homage for social outlaws. A former academic with years of activism, his work is soundly resourced and literate. He is the publisher/editor of the Malpais Review poetry quarterly, now sorely missed. A thoughtful and entertaining pick for armchair traveling.
"Gary Brower's poetry is the one-handed clap that levels the tower of Pancoptican-USA. His poetic landscapes are polycentric, everywhere and nowhere, from the hills of Placitas and Oklahoma, to the streets of Lawrence, Albuquerque, Los Angeles, Madrid, Cairo, Guadalajara, Kingston, Machu Picchu, and beyond. His Pantheon of heroes includes poets, musicians, and ordinary people. He has achieved the Orwellian ideal, the synthesis of political and artistic purpose."
- Enrique Lamadrid, Professor Emeritus
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
University of New Mexico
Everywhere No One Expected to Find You
Autobiographical Poems by G.L. Brower
Everywhere No One Expected to Find You
is a posthumous collection lovingly put together by Esther Feske and Dale Harris, longtime editors of Gary L. Brower’s poetry. These autobiographical poems comprise the memoir of a man, but also of a time and place, the American Midwest in the mid-twentieth century. It was an era of lived poverty and personal struggle to survive dire economic circumstances. Brower eloquently sings about a culture of God, grit and patriotism, seen in retrospect. The book is a fitting tribute to a man who literally was everywhere no one expected to find him.
-excerpt from a review by Margaret Randall
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