In a new decade-spanning collection, poet and country musician Julian Talamantez Brolaski plunges us into the wake of a spiritual experience, asking what it means to 'give everything to poetry.'
Julian quits their job and goes wandering across the country looking for a way to live as an artist in the endtimes, to find joy in a time when the climate is in collapse and trans people are being disappeared. The poems form a kind of poetic memoir of life on the road, episodes of a seeker's journey as they partake of ceremony, prayer, and sojourns into the city and the wilderness. Wild and Blue is a sweeping rumination on wandering, mystical encounters, sobriety, falling in love, and meeting oneself repeatedly across time.