Deliverance: Five Cycles from Doom-Up from the Gloom

In Deliverance, D. Brandt turns the poetic journey begun in Redemptions inward, tracing the soul’s hidden struggles where weakness becomes the doorway to grace. These five cycles move from sin’s crushing weight into the looping ache of daily failure, through time’s slow erosion, down to the stripped self, and finally to despair met by seventy-times-seven mercy.

Through crafted forms, refrains, and the discipline of meter, the poems enact what they name: repetition, weakness, endurance, and t...