John Brandi

Who is John Brandi?

John Brandi is an American poet and artist associated with the 1960s aftermath of the Beat Generation. San Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman has said of Brandi:

“He has been an open roader for much of his life and like his two great forebears, Whitman and Neruda, has named the minute particulars, the details of his sojournings … infusing them with a whole gamut of feelings— compassionate, mischievous, loving and righteous. It’s what’s made his poetry one of the solid bodies of work that’s emerged from the North American West since the ‘60s.”