The Rough Road Press is proud to present our premier publication, A Brazilian Incarnation - New and Selected Poems (1967-2004) By Bill Pearlman. $14.00

These poems were born of the borrowed insistence that what psychoanalysis calls the ‘object’ is more than an illusion, that she is the emphasis that makes the poems work. But on the other hand, since the muse seems to take many forms, perhaps the crunch time of desire is to realize that you must wrench the energy away from the ‘object’ and live with your own protracted subjectivity. Either way, there seems to be a struggle with the idea of yearning for some kind of deep connection with another, vanishing act notwithstanding. In Brazil, as close to a sensual wonderland as I've experienced, the entire atmosphere creates a scenario whose intense gravity is so pervasive one must fall into edenic living only to eventually realize it’s not a permanent state. But ultimately perhaps the trying to dig into love & sex and its soulful pain and ecstasy is what poetry can manage as well as any form yet proposed.

A Brazilian Incarnation by Bill Pearlman - 256 pages
ISBN 1-930589-21-2
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(From Brazillian Incarnation)

MYSTIC EMBRACE

Apotheosis, a cool rain

in the middle of drought.

I gave you my still laughing tale

and you entered my domain,

Your sheer will shattered

all preconceptions I might have

about your hurrying light;

You were the evanescent pure

hypothesis of joy

and I loved you with a force goes further

than mere touching. This

was a great occasion for romance & mystery

for the driven shape of courageous acts,

for this certain scope of so many hours

holding close the beauty and the dance

—Bill Pearlman