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Grand Gnostic Central & Other Poems
Bryan Sentes writes with a rare breadth of sensibility and style: bardic declamation and intimate lyric, ironic oracle and tart satire, incantatory deconstructions and romantic nature hymns. In this, his first full-length collection of poetry, subjects ranging from the chopping block of History to childhood memories, from Meister Eckhart to flying saucers, are rendered in a manner no less unsettling and exhilarating than the world around us. Grand Gnostic Central is a poetic and philosophical work resolutely bent on wringing a delirious lucidity from the white noise at Millennium’s end… “where/The stars are all arranged in such a way/As to suggest an endless emptiness/Or heavens full of foreign deities…”
“…skill and professional polish…. captures that rare, spontaneous chemistry of language finding language.” — The Montreal Gazette “…a strong sense of the minds quest for transcendental meaning…. Sentes is a mature artist with serious things to say.” — Canadian Book Review Annual “Ironic , sometimes satiric, Sentes verse is philosophical and attuned to the nuances of rare and pivotal moments in time.” — Rampike
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