The Seattle Writings
Poems and Other Writings
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Sidewinder I don’t know why I write. The twitching movements of my hand remind me of a teasing pantomime whose ridiculous performance will not be remembered by tomorrow. The thoughts I have by day seem bipolar by description and utterly mad by definition, so I scribble them on stained notebooks, receipts, used napkins or most anything else around at the time and hope for an hour of rest. Sometimes, I scratch them into my palm or anxiously with unrelenting force into the side of my bony wrists when no one is looking. My family physician insists I enjoy this because its runny red cursive will artfully scab over like dried fruit or the perspiring brown neck of an elderly recluse. Now, why this theory is pertinent, I have no idea but I think it is my little way of escaping a weird little world unstellar with a pocket full of wet dreams. Seriously though, I don’t know why I write.
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Originally, from Madera Ranchos, California Brandon W. Ivie now resides with his family in the In the Seattle Writings, his latest volume of poetry, Brandon W. Ivie presents a compelling collection of inspired works, written and compiled from various visits to the the spring of 1998 to the winter of 2002. Within these pages, you will be able to touch the same static streets, relive the visual wilderness of dream and begin, if you will to explore and take-in what it was that was experienced while among those in the
About the Author
Brandon W. Ivie has been writing poetry for the past seventeen years and has been the recipient of several awards that include The Best Poems and Poets of 2007, Inclusion in numerous Nationwide hard bound compilations and induction twice into The Sound of Poetry, a three-disc audio showcase release .
In 2003, Ivie burst into the poetry scene with his first collection, 2 Doors fromElsewhere, a book of contemplative and inventive verse that won him comparisons to everyone from Stephen Crane to Jim Carroll. The Seatte Writings, Ivie's sophomore release defines its own mark and quickly establishes that Ivie's emerging force and range of vision are as strong as ever.