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Brandt, D.

 
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Synopsis

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 the surprising return of hope. Where strength collapses, grace arrives; where the heart falters, Providence steadies.
Brandt writes for days when endurance runs thin and faith feels frayed, offering not explanation but companionship. These poems invite readers to honesty—to see deliverance not as a single moment but as a returning, again and again, to the God who remakes what we cannot.

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À propos de l'auteur

Douglas R. Brandt, Ph.D., is a poet and former scientist, manager, and consultant whose lifelong curiosity was sparked in a Kansas basement lab of his own making. That drive carried him to a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Kansas State University and decades researching and managing all types of projects--holding two patents and multiple scientific publications--until retirement in 2022 gave poetry the space it had long deserved.



Early poems did appear alongside the lab work, slipped into his high school's Non Pareil (1973) and a Christian youth magazine soon after, but poetry only fully claimed him later. His writing now marries formal craft (villanelles, quatrains, looping refrains) with a scientist's precision and a believer's honest grappling with suffering, hope, and redemption. The Redemptions Rhythms Trilogy--Redemptions, Deliverance, and Redemptions Refrain--traces that pattern across breadth, depth, and daily reach.



He lives in Lafayette, Indiana, with his wife Cheryl. Their four children, spouses, and four grandchildren are scattered from nearby to afar. He still runs barefoot and refuses easy answers.

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