Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry. A triple play. Brian Lucas--painter, poet, musician--eye, heart, mind. Written with a sense of unfolding mystery, his voice on the page is sure in its tone, the ongoing quest and questioning is awake with profound and restless detail. Out of the ballpark. I await more.--David Meltzer
Shock is the awe of reading--'a fable folded into sea.' The elemental act of reading is physical as well as chemical, a catalyst transforming the coastline of clouds into the graceful synaesthetic prosody of CIRCLES MATTER. The circles that matter are lines of approach, the 'Contents' describing 25 poems and 3 drawings, from 'Awe' to 'Sketch of an Eclipse.' Brian Lucas's elegant CIRCLES MATTER moves time, in time, 'Never resting as ideal state.'--Norma Cole
The creative mind is a vast and never-still momentum of thoughts giving way to images and metaphors that, when followed, reveal paths connecting suns and cities, galaxies and cells. Brian Lucas has found a way to navigate the language of this complicated field in a way that fills the reader's creative mind with the possibility of landscapes seen in trance-vision, or concepts like 'each part is an illusion' understood as thoughts heard in rhythmic mythological time. CIRCLES MATTER, because 'every brain has an inferno to occupy.'--Kristen Prevallet
While reading CIRCLES MATTER, a mirage of lines spins around me. I feel as if plunged into a teeming interregnum, where the invisible brews and comes back to itself through 'boundary-less sensations.' These Circles are made of 'clues...hidden in the songs sung.' After an indeterminate duration of contact with the text, I feel as if Brian Lucas has chanted a hive of codes beckoning through 'yellow' 'light.'--Will Alexander
