Andrew Brenza Livres

The collection features a series of lyrical and concrete poems that explore the beauty and tragedy of the natural world, reflecting on humanity's role in its destruction. While acknowledging despair, the author introduces innovative poetic expressions that encourage a reimagining of our connection to nature. This alternative approach offers a challenging yet hopeful perspective, urging readers to transform not only their understanding of nature but also their relationship with language itself.

Silence descended. WRYTHM waited. The lights went out. WRYTHM watched. For WRYTHM had called forth an inhuman alterity. For WRYTHM had caused it to rise from the earth and consume the sky. We saw its emptiness and we trembled, we raged. We were alone and frightened. We raged in our fear…. So begins humanity’s relationship with an artificial intelligence called WRYTHM, a relationship that will lead both to fundamental questions of free will and mutual survival. Weaving together prose narrative, visual poetry and blank verse, WRYTHM is a bold experimental exploration of the meaning of consciousness.

Andrew Brenza's 'I Wake Up Each Morning Covered in Dust' is an abstract verse memoir of the post-apocalypse. In it, lyric poetry is reduced to vectorized fields of punctuation, words collapse on each other to form corroded textual rivets, and concrete poems melt in meta-commentary to expose the wasteland of the human spirit. Yet, among these aimless ruins of textual matter is a representation of the persistence of human consciousness, the will to endure, and the desire to find beauty among the rubble.