Tender in the Age of Fury
Mosaic Press —
Now in its 3rd Printing!
Tender in the Age of Fury is the second collection of poems by Montreal-based Canadian poet Brandon Pitts. Pitts first came onto the Toronto lit scene in 2010 with the short story “The BC Crib,” published in the anthology Canadian Voices Volume II. In 2011, he was inducted into the prestigious Diaspora Dialogues as an “Emerging Voice” for fiction. He followed this with his novel Puzzle of Murders(2011) and then a poetry collection Pressure to Sing (2012). He is now based in Montreal, Québec and is aprominent figure in the city’s poetry scene.
“Pitts’ work is visceral, political, irreverent, historical, biblical, romantic, vulgar and lyrical. You really need to hear those words and rhythms.”
“Here is that rarest of things in poetry these days: a unique voice. One that is neither obscurantist nor self-indulgent. Brandon Pitts inhabits a kind of wild west biblical terrain peopled by gunfighters and long-bearded prophets. a land that most of his fellow poets don’t even know exists and wouldn’t dare visit if they did. Bob Dylan has prospected there. Nick Tosches, too. There’s gold in those streams and this guy Pitts has panned some of it.”
“Pitts’s poetry slouches, grimoire in hand, tribal Bible underfoot at a cornfield crossroads…Jerry Lee pumps marching orders to Sherman’s charcoaled Georgia…Keef wailing incoherent chords…much madness, some prophecy, enter…this…history…at…your…own…sanity.”