Gods & Money, Poems by James Brock

In Gods & Money, James Brock skillfully examines the idols of our worship and the currencies of our human exchange, bringing humor and irony to his difficult task.

Sample Poems by James Brock

Pictures That Got Small by James Brock

“With Gods & Money, James Brock has constructed a post-poetics: post-9/11, post-Hurricane-Charley, post-love, post-life, post-family, post-self, post-art, post-rapture. It is the dark music of aftermath, the perilous lyric of collapse. And yet, in spite of all the terror, all the trauma, Gods & Money is an intensely hopeful book; as James Brock shows us in poem after poem, now that the terrible has happened, the beautiful can begin.”—Jay Hopler

“James Brock’s remarkable poems offer a new way to know the world. He’s not afraid to examine beauty and loss. Through crisp, astonishing language, his narrative verse and formal poems hold up a mirror to America and Americana. From meditations on September 11, to the loss of his brother, to the flounce and zip of his series on dresses, James’s poems tell the truth yet always live in hope.”—January Gill O’Neil

“Pop culture, poetry, politics, and religion—all subjects that come under scrutiny in James Brock’s book, Gods & Money. With his tongue-in-cheek humor and observant eye, Brock entrances us with his tales of the melancholy romance of soup, the connecting threads between Walt Whitman and the Florida Everglades.”—Jeannine Hall Gailey

James Brock is the author of four books of poetry, including Pictures That Got Small, published by WordTech Editions in 2005. For his poetry, he has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Alex Haley Foundation, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and the Idaho Commission for the Arts. He currently is a professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University.

ISBN-13: 978-1936370023, 88 pages, $18.00

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