Jake Berry's Brambu Drezi

The new Station Hill edition presents the first three volumes of Brambu Drezi. (Berry has begun work on a video-based fourth volume.) Brambu Drezi is an overwhelming reading experience – a generative site for colliding mythologies, perspectives, culture, visions, decompositions, and recyclings, complete with superb drawings by Berry – not illustrations, but drawings that are inextricably part of the journey, part of the ciphering and deciphering. The work moves from a kind of talking in tongues to the most lyrical of moments, from mythic encounters to mundane cinematic scenes. With Berry as medium – the poet as the site or gathering point for the text – we are given a work that rewards reading and re-reading. To learn more about Berry’s varied work, go to http://9thstlab.blogspot.com