Brent Goodman's debut poetry collection The Brother Swimming Beneath Me (2009) was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and a Thom Gunn Award. A recipient of two Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowships, his work has appeared in Poetry, Diode, Green Mountains Review, Puerto Del Sol, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Pank, Devil's Lake, and elsewhere. Brent lives in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, where he's a professional copywriter, assistant editor for the online journal Anti-, and a certified Reiki Master teacher/practitioner.

Books by Brent Goodman:

Other poems on the web by Brent Goodman:
Four poems
Three poems
Four poems
Three poems
"One Nation Under Me"
"Information Age"
Three poems
"Evaporation"
Four poems
"A Focus"

Brent Goodman's Website.

About Far From Sudden:

"Memory and mortality are disquieting muses in Brent Goodman's Far From Sudden. The first assaults the mind with the knowledge 'every life / must move one sullen photograph at a time'; the other dispirits the body with the existential truth: 'I am this quiet / passenger in my own vehicle.' But from the poetry of pain and solitude come recovery, gratitude and the blissful state of surrender. Goodman weaves light into darkness gloriously, like prayer into marrow."
—Rigoberto González

"Goodman's poems are marvelously realized into crisp and compressed lyrics not easily forgotten. Far From Sudden frequently surprises, even as we are seduced by sights and sounds of the ordinary animated with astonishing and eloquent force."
—Aimee Nezhukumatathil

"These poems are heart-haunted. Cardiac telemetry is the central metaphor for his poetic quest that captures the dance between desire and death, and the eroticism ('I like it / when our wildest parts are glistening') is made more urgent because of the awareness of mortality ('Hearses headlights always on'). Between gravity and trajectory, Goodman's poems are crushingly immediate - as compelling as cave drawings, as awe-inspiring and elegant as star maps."
—Patrick Lawler