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by D. Brandt (Author)
In Redemptions Refrain, D. Brandt brings his trilogy to its culminating arc, where the soul rises from descent into a long, steady answering of grace. These five cycles trace the slow rebuilding that follows deliverance--how mercy, once received, becomes a rhythm; how joy, once glimpsed, becomes a practice; and how faith, once bruised, begins to sing again.
Here the poems turn from collapse to resonance, from the inner ache to the outward echo of a life remade. Through crafted forms, patterned cadences, and the discipline of refrain, Brandt shows how renewal unfolds not in sudden triumph but in repeated returning--small fidelities, quiet recognitions, and the daily choosing of hope.
Where Deliverance revealed mercy in weakness, Refrain explores what comes after: the struggle to live upheld, to carry grace into ordinary days, and to let joy recalibrate the heart. These poems do not promise ease; they witness how the soul learns to trust its footing again.
Brandt offers readers a companion for the long obedience of restored life--a poetic witness to the God who not only delivers but sustains, shaping echoes of redemption into a refrain that continues long after the storm.
Author Biography
D. Brandt turned a Kansas basement chemistry set into lifelong curiosity, publishing early poems in high school's Non Pareil (1973). A PhD in biochemistry from Kansas State led to decades in science. Poetry claimed him later; Redemptions is his first collection. He lives in Lafayette, Indiana, with wife Cheryl; their four children, spouses, and four grandchildren are scattered from nearby to afar. He runs barefoot and refuses easy answers.
