With wit and vulnerability, Brandel France de Bravo explores resilience in the face of climate change and a global pandemic, race, and the concept of a self, all while celebrating the power of breath as “baptism on repeat.” Whether her inspiration is twelfth-century Buddhist mind-training slogans or the one-footed crow who visits her daily, France de Bravo mines the tension between the human desire for permanence and control, and life’s fluid, ungraspable nature. Poem by poem, essay by essay, she builds a temple to the perpetual motion of transformation, the wondrous churn of change and…mehr
With wit and vulnerability, Brandel France de Bravo explores resilience in the face of climate change and a global pandemic, race, and the concept of a self, all while celebrating the power of breath as “baptism on repeat.” Whether her inspiration is twelfth-century Buddhist mind-training slogans or the one-footed crow who visits her daily, France de Bravo mines the tension between the human desire for permanence and control, and life’s fluid, ungraspable nature. Poem by poem, essay by essay, she builds a temple to the perpetual motion of transformation, the wondrous churn of change and exchange that defines companionship, marriage, and ceding our place on Earth: “not dying, but molting.”
Brandel France de Bravo is the author of the poetry collections Provenance and Mother, Loose and the editor of Mexican Poetry Today: 20/20 Voices. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2024, 32 Poems, Barrow Street, Conduit, Diode, Salamander, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere.
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Regard the Other as a Verb Part 1. Take & Give After the Ecstasy, the Laundry Resilience I Free Trade Agreement, a Zuihitsu Women Talking Love It or List It Staging People of the Dog Resilience II Resilience III You’re Like a Dull Knife The Lounge Chair Does the Work Taking Dictation Home Improvement Pronominal Affection It’s a Joy to Be Hidden and a Disaster Not to Be Found Fractals Part 2. Mind Training Slogans Slogan 27: Work with the Greatest Defilements First Slogan 25: Don’t Talk about Injured Limbs Slogan 7: Giving and Taking Should Be Practiced Alternately. These Two Should Ride the Breath (a.k.a. Practice Tonglen) Slogan 34: Don’t Transfer the Ox’s Load to the Cow Slogan 8: Three Objects, Three Poisons, Three Seeds of Virtue Slogan 1: Train in the Preliminaries Slogan 20: Of the Two Witnesses, Hold the Principal One Slogan 38: Don’t Seek Others’ Pain as the Limbs of Your Own Happiness Slogan 49: Always Meditate on Whatever Provokes Resentment Slogan 59: Don’t Expect Applause Slogan 4: Self-Liberate Even the Antidote Slogan 28: Abandon All Hope of Fruition Part 3. After the Before Times Resilience IV What It Took and What It Gave Resilience V Lying Flat Seam and Sieve Tradition Is the Prison in Which You Live Provincetown Angrief Now You Don’t See It, Now You Do If It’s in the Way, It Is the Way Resilience VI Part 4. Terminal Lucidity Resurrection, a Cento from My Murdered Darlings As Seen on TV Guns and Butter The Chemistry of Distance Course Correction Gold Chains and Squash Blossoms Wind in a Box Final Descent Resilience VII Acknowledgments Notes
Regard the Other as a Verb Part 1. Take & Give After the Ecstasy, the Laundry Resilience I Free Trade Agreement, a Zuihitsu Women Talking Love It or List It Staging People of the Dog Resilience II Resilience III You’re Like a Dull Knife The Lounge Chair Does the Work Taking Dictation Home Improvement Pronominal Affection It’s a Joy to Be Hidden and a Disaster Not to Be Found Fractals Part 2. Mind Training Slogans Slogan 27: Work with the Greatest Defilements First Slogan 25: Don’t Talk about Injured Limbs Slogan 7: Giving and Taking Should Be Practiced Alternately. These Two Should Ride the Breath (a.k.a. Practice Tonglen) Slogan 34: Don’t Transfer the Ox’s Load to the Cow Slogan 8: Three Objects, Three Poisons, Three Seeds of Virtue Slogan 1: Train in the Preliminaries Slogan 20: Of the Two Witnesses, Hold the Principal One Slogan 38: Don’t Seek Others’ Pain as the Limbs of Your Own Happiness Slogan 49: Always Meditate on Whatever Provokes Resentment Slogan 59: Don’t Expect Applause Slogan 4: Self-Liberate Even the Antidote Slogan 28: Abandon All Hope of Fruition Part 3. After the Before Times Resilience IV What It Took and What It Gave Resilience V Lying Flat Seam and Sieve Tradition Is the Prison in Which You Live Provincetown Angrief Now You Don’t See It, Now You Do If It’s in the Way, It Is the Way Resilience VI Part 4. Terminal Lucidity Resurrection, a Cento from My Murdered Darlings As Seen on TV Guns and Butter The Chemistry of Distance Course Correction Gold Chains and Squash Blossoms Wind in a Box Final Descent Resilience VII Acknowledgments Notes
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