Some moments in life are meant to be savored, enjoyed through slow, deliberate consumption. But too often, such moments are met instead with overeagerness and excessive hunger, which threaten to devour the context of the moment before its content is even partially digested.
For this reason, Bradley James requests that you take your time and be patient with Raison d'être. It should be read only a few pages at a time, in a quiet place where you can thoroughly consider the deep, sometimes dark mental images and prodding questions that will inevitably pervade your thoughts and tempt you to turn just one more page-even though that's exactly what you've been told not to do.
Comprised of two separate volumes, Raison d'être was described by Kirkus Independent Reviews as "an epic, multipart poetry cycle about the nature of life and the transience of relationships" and "a free-form, often thought-provoking verse confessional in the tradition of Leaves of Grass."
Both standing alone and taken together with the second book in the collection, Raison d'être, Volume I deeply explores the author's thoughts and philosophies on life, death, spirituality, and the essence of what makes human life so precious and unique.
About the Author: A world-renowned author and teacher, Bradley James has his own very unique style of thought and mastery of the written word. Born and raised in a peaceful place where life played out according to the rhythm of the seasons, he became intimately familiar with solitude as a child and used those feelings to nurture an introspective mind.
At a young age, James began studying the world's various religions and fingering through classic poetry and prose. Continuing his studies into adulthood, he went on to explore the depths of philosophy, especially Zen Buddhism, which inevitably found voice in his own thoughts and work.
As a poet, James examines life, death, and spirituality and expresses the essence of existence with a richness that's sure to appeal to lovers of art, literature, and the humanities.
