American Prophet

"American Prophet, through poems that manage to be both irreverent and frighteningly inspiring, dares to address the larger concerns of our day: Faith and Doubt. We follow Robert Fanning's 'Prophet' in his dark suit, as he roams the common landscape of dry cleaners, movie theaters, and super-marts, like a mad circuit preacher trapped in a strip-mall. What is salvation in a secular world? In a time of deep divisions between the right and the left, believers and those who believe otherwise? No matter what the reader's background, we find ourselves walking in the Prophet's shoes, feeling his grope toward vision, and his frustration as he loses sight of it. It takes an adept poet to pull this off, but these lyrics work the way poetry is meant to work, they move us past presumption and lax acceptance, past what we think we know, to make us rethink our staid convictions, whatever those might be." - Vievee Francis, author of Blue-Tail Fly"