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by Brendan McBreen 168 pages/118 poems ISBN: 978-1-936657-26-1 Price: $15.00 MoonPath Press To order: http://moonpathpress.com/BrendanMcBreen.htm ABOUT THE BOOK: Cosmic Egg by Brendan McBreen (MoonPath Press, 2017) is a universe in a book. Brendan's poetry ranges from the physics of deepest space to inner struggles of identity and depression. But all throughout there is light, sometimes dim and flickering, often times outrageous, funny and insightful. ADVANCE PRAISE: Brendan McBreen's spare poems in Cosmic Egg combine humor, science, philosophy and life experience in whimsical harmony. —Jeannine Hall Gailey, author of Field Guide to the End of the World Brendan McBreen has a unique gift for mixing math, science, philosophy, and whimsy in his poetry; this talent is on full display in Cosmic Egg, and stirs the philosopher and physicist within us all. This collection also explores difficult life experiences—gender identity, depression, abuse—with moving honesty. —Cindy M. Hutchings, author of Tree Talk Brendan McBreen's Cosmic Egg (Moonpath Press, 2017) is a gorgeous collection, both lush and minimal at the same time. Each of these poems deserves to be savored; most are short, sparely word gems loaded with impact, a la Kay Ryan. Some unpack a broad, philosophical theme in just a few words, while others are intensely personal. A unique wit and wry sense of humor run throughout, too. All in all, this is a beautiful collection…highly recommended. —Laura Allen, author of The Quiet Year (Two Ponies Press, 2017) ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Brendan McBreen is a poet and workshop facilitator with Striped Water Poets in Auburn Washington. He graduated from Auburn Riverside High School, attended college at Green River Community College, the University of Phoenix, and Monash University in Australia. Once long ago he earned his black belt in karate from the American Karate Escrima Association. As a regular attendee of various poetry and literary events, (such as Burning Word, the Skagit River Poetry Festival, the SPLAB! visiting poets series, and Poets in the Park) he has taken classes presented by many notable writers including: Wanda Coleman, Diane di Prima, Christopher Howell, the incomparable Jack McCarthy, former Washington State Poets Laureate Kathleen Flenniken and Elizabeth Austen, and many others. Brendan is an event coordinator with Auburn AugustFest and the Poetry at the Rainbow Caféreading and . open-mic series. He is a former coordinator of the August Poetry Postcard Project. He writes sci-fi poetry, haiku, is a surrealist, a humorist, a Seahawks fan, an admirer of crows and cats, and a life-long collector of weirdness. He is a student of Zen and Taoist philosophy, Wicca, psychology, and various other esoteric ideas. He is a collage artist, an occasional cartoonist and sometimes still paints. FROM THE BOOK: Voyager by Brendan McBreen long after our wars and our pollutions fail to kill us humans and the Earth we cling to will return to the dust stars are made of no whispers no bangs just cold heat from a dying sun a final embrace of light the small hopes we have scattered into endless oceans of time nothing more than graffiti on the universe saying only we were here we existed even these will be lost among gathered dust and debris until they burn away streaking across the sky of some distant planet born eons after Earth's demise a creature there may find an odd relic and say to its fellows these metals these etchings cannot be made in nature amid phosphorescent flickers of dissent this creature will be laughed out of the room into cool night air where it will tilt its sensory protuberance up to better hear the stars sing and think maybe just maybe we are not alone
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