Silence

by Brian Glaser

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To accept the depth of his own silence—Brian Glaser here gives himself to the path of inner emigration, wholly open to its labyrinths; its vistas; its gift of freedom.

POETRY / General

ISBN: 978-1-971191-26-3 (print; softcover; perfect bound)

LCCN: 2026945275

Released July 21, 2026 | Copyright 2026

68 pages

Author Biography

Brian Glaser is the author of six books of poetry and many essays on poetry and poetics. He lives in Santa Ana, California, and teaches art and history at Chapman University. sites.chapman.edu/bglaser

Endorsements

“Brian Glaser is a spiritual seeker, which involves continually testing wisdom from several spiritual traditions. But the major emphasis is on an effort to produce as absolute a clarity as possible about elemental features of his life—natural, personal, familial, social, and political. Innocence becomes as fundamental as air; desire as fundamental as water. So poetry itself has to renounce metaphor and elaborate form in order to hew as closely as possible to honest renderings of surprising moments where the shadows lift and the mind responds to something worth enduring. These moments seem utterly bare. The poetry resides in the resonance of what comes to matter as it just comes into language, often weaving sites of contradiction that also serve as means of recognizing how intractably solitude, social pressure, and familial ties serve to foster one another. Poetry becomes a process of imagination ceaselessly adjusting to shifts in possibilities of responsiveness. And the moral life becomes inseparable from fostering careful attention to what creates and binds our passions.”
—Charles Altieri, author of Reckoning with the Imagination: Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience; professor of English, University of California, Berkeley

“. . . evokes things like Frost and Whitman, seeing something haunting in nature, but probably more like Frost because the human element is so present and nostalgic, the way the poet seems to recognize the detachment from nature and feel a bit sad about it, missing something, and yet in a way that makes for a lonely sort of beauty.” 
—Quick Sip Review of “Earthly Paradise”

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