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Ken Brandon, Poet
Ken Brandon--a painter as well as a poet (actually, both combined, much of the time)--was born 10 February 1934 in Seattle, Washington. He now lives with his wife, Maru Bruno Flores, in Mexico. His mailing address is La Danza 6, San Miguel de Allende, GTO. 37700 Mexico; his phone number is (Mexico)(415)-2-7098. A graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle, he has three children: Ansel, Mateo and Dylan. According to the Comprepoetica survey form he filled out, Brandon makes his living "under dim eyes passes the trail market." His religion is Zenjoko, his political affiliation "good." As for the poets who have influenced him,
the other poets
I throw in the fire
to get hot
His hobbies are confidential. In answer to the survey question about what techniques and subject matter are of value to him in poetry, he says, "Technique is self without trying for any subject matter." Regarding contemporary poetry, he says, "As I think of it, it defines itself automatically."
Brandon is a publisher who has put out 19 issues of the zine, Iz Knot, as of 1997. His work has not been much written up. "My own stuff grips my interest," he says in response to the query on the survey about what books he reads, or movies he goes to, and so forth. He describes his background in philosophy and science as "normal." As for the sports he watches or participates in, information about that, he says, is "confidential." On life-in-general, Brandon says:
finding his path less taken
misled the dead gardner
for a while
To view an untitled sample poem by Brandon, click here.
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