Young Santa
“Young Santa brings together saint and Santa in a way I could never have guessed at before reading this thin, quietly astonishing book...Far from the red-nosed, portly elder tipsy on his own generosity, Young Santa cuts the lean figure of an ascetic mystic, more Jain than djinn, closer to a stoic philosopher than to the stuff of our childhood dreams.” — Dan Beachy-Quick, Los Angeles Review of Books“A saint of poetry.” — Anne Waldman
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A compass for finding your way through department stores ancient forests hospital rooms and kneedeep snow. The way it works is you read the poems inside and they make firelight in your brain. Designed to fit in your pocket so you can accidentally run it through the washing machine.
Photo by Cori Storb
Joe Deany-Braun is the curator of Perelandra Bookshop and author of Young Santa. He lives in northwest Fort Collins with his wife, daughter, and cat.
Review of Young Santa in Los Angeles Review of Books
On poetry and reading in The Denver Post
On the Reader in Residence in The Colorado Sun
On the Reader in Residence on 9News