โ Scribed by Brautigan, Richard
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
June 30th, June 30th is the most intimate book Richard Brautigan
has ever written. It is about his first trip to Japan in the spring of 1976 and
explores with wit and compassion the day-to-day realities of the human heart. This
book of poetry is also a unique look at Japan as seen through the eyes of one
of Americas most popular poets.
What can I say? It is your work that has touched me the
most deeply, the least mannered and most exact in its insistent nakedness. It
is not a succession of lyrics but finally ONE BOOK. A long poem that offers us
its fragments. It is saturated with the otherness we know to be our most
honest state and the true state of poetry. It offers itself in perhaps the
unconscious but ancient fabled form of the voyage. It is about the stately
courage and loneliness of this voyage into a strange land which is both Japan
and the true self of the poet, where there are no barriers to admitting and singing
all. It is about love and exhaustion and permanent transition, so fatal that it
is beyond the poets comprehension. I love the book because it is a true song, owning
no auspices other than its own; owning the purity we think we aim at on this
bloody journey.
Jim Harrison,
author of Wolf
and Farmer
Richard Brautigans latest book is Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942. Richard Brautigans
other books of poetry include The Pill
Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, Rommel
Drives On Deep into Egypt, and Loading
Mercury with a Pitchfork.
Richard Brautigan divides his life between San Francisco,
Montana, and Tokyo.
ISBN : 0440542650
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