Orpheus Remains: New and Selected Poems

ORPHEUS REMAINS is a means of time travel for Clifford Brooks. Here, he offers selected poems from his previous collections in pursuit of confessing his full truth. Vividly reliving more than thirty years of demons that still haunt and angels who continue to lift Brooks out of darkness, these poems show not only personal growth but also the evolution of his craft. As a tribute to survival, every poem is a literal translation of what has been loved, lost, gained, relinquished, and graced by the spaces in between where God prevails. Written in accessible, melodic form, every aspect of the poet's life is exposed. New poems find Brooks standing firmly in the present with hopeful anticipation for the future, accepting that he alone allowed addiction and insecurities born of autism to obscure his peace. ORPHEUS REMAINS offers comfort, connection, and proof that there exists no abyss too deep to extinguish the light of redemption.