Frames of Silence
Author: Allan Brown
Allan Brown is a hidden treasure
of Canadian literature, a poet consistently praised by fellow
poets and critics of all schools, yet still too little known.
Now Frames of Silence offers an introduction to Brown’s
work across four decades of inspired commitment to the craft
and vision of his highly unusual poetry, which Gary Geddes
has termed “parables of the pilgrim soul.” Brown
has selected mid-length poems and poetic sequences to provide
a gripping overview of his work.
Beautiful and utterly individual rhythms; a style both
precise and elusive; spiritual yearning that can reach to
epiphany or apocalypse; a fearful love of the everyday world;
dread of dark places and of brokenness within the mind—such
threads make up the rich texture of Brown’s verse.
Frames of Silence reveals a poet whose form and technique
are fully adequate to the passion of his great yet intimate
subjects.
“The questioning and
formidable mind that directs his prosody is as much a part
of the poem as its insight.”
~ Al Purdy
“ It is not reality that
remeems his words, but rather the music of his words that
redeems mundane reality.”
~ Ken Stange
“...poems which emerge
out of myth and religious insight, poems of sensual and
sexual awakening and loss, poems of wit and vision [that]
seek to speak the unspeakable...”
~ Douglas Barbour
“He is speaking of the dreams in our green world,
the dream of God, of man in his mortal longing.”
~ Barry Dempster
