{"product_id":"wild-and-blue","title":"Wild and Blue","description":"\u003c!--AUTHOR AND PAGE DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wavepoetry.com\/products\/julian-talamantez-brolaski\"\u003eJulian Talamantez Brolaski\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/wavepoetry.com\/products\/dale-martin-smith\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/wavepoetry.com\/products\/joshua-beckman\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!--END DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca class=\"active\" href=\"#tab1\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222; background: white;\"\u003eIn a new decade-spanning collection, poet and country musician Julian Talamantez Brolaski plunges us into the wake of a spiritual experience, asking what it means to ‘give everything to poetry.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222; background: white;\"\u003e  Julian quits their job and goes wandering across the country looking for a way to live as an artist in the endtimes, to find joy in a time when the climate is in collapse and trans people are being disappeared. The poems form a kind of poetic memoir of life on the road, episodes of a seeker’s journey as they partake of ceremony, prayer, and sojourns into the city and the wilderness. \u003ci\u003eWild and Blue\u003c\/i\u003e is a sweeping rumination on wandering, mystical encounters, sobriety, falling in love, and meeting oneself repeatedly across time.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c!--END DESCRIPTION--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003c!--REVIEWS--\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrevious Praise:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\" class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Brolaski riffs off the eponymous idea of what it means to be a mongrel. . . . Brolaski presents, and seems dedicated to, the kind of experimentation that keeps language evolving and malleable.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/978-1-940696-44-7\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"When reading Julian I never know what is going to appear in the next line, what fragments of images and feelings will create a constellation or poem... I go to Julian’s poems because there I so often find this life I cannot see on my own.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2018\/06\/what-to-read-when-youre-queer-and-of-color-during-pride\/\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Julian Talamantez Brolaski’s poetry inhabits the fluid space between cultures, genders and languages — a position from which a poem’s aims become necessarily slippery... Brolaski’s style, featuring run-ons, misspellings and elisions, can disorient a reader, but it also creates fresh associations and surprises.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Roderick, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/datebook.sfchronicle.com\/books\/state-lines-a-poem-by-julian-talamantez-brolaski\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Of Mongrelitude, his third collection, is as idiosyncratic as his background might suggest. It is a stylistically bold book...it is also an emotionally engaging book, provided one is willing to dial into the formally challenging frequency in which it broadcasts...It is a different way of shoring up fragments, a different way to talk of who you are.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Hudson Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Julian Talamantez Brolaski captures the terrain of poetry's future. These poems look backward within Western literary traditions while projecting ahead to what's yet arriving. This is the language of song society and is in dire need of hearing. ”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick James Dunagan, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.raintaxi.com\/of-mongrelitude-the-absolute-letter-in-memory-of-an-angel\/\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 6, 2027\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN# 9798891060524 (6.5 x 9, 168pp, trade paperback)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Julian Talamantez Brolaski","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":68223065096496,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/1312\/files\/wild.front6.3_FINAL_copy.jpg?v=1793393316","url":"https:\/\/www.wavepoetry.com\/products\/wild-and-blue","provider":"Wave Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}