Ponckhockie Union

Benedict Arnold Rose is a documentary filmmaker in a troubled marriage. His history-focused life is suddenly derailed by shadowy assassins with multiple identities, indoctrination in a dark cell, seduction, betrayal, the finality of fire, and the unexpected kindness of a stranger. He must journey within, but what is real? And who is asking? Coincidence and paradox abound as Rose negotiates his passage into a new life...but the questions without answers still remain.

"Ponckhockie Union is an alchemical exploit in which trauma and synchronicity operate as elixirs, ennobling ordinary lives. Its elegant clarity presents two kinds of detective story, one unfolding in New York's Hudson Valley and the other in the mind of a man who finds his own sense of self getting in the way of his highest aspiration, which is to transcend the world of category and convention and dissolve into the primal material of the cosmos, hence the title, Ponckhockie Union." ---Djelloul Marbrook, award-winning poet and novelist, Far from Algiers, The Light Piercing Water Trilogy, and more

"Ponckhockie Union is an enthralling detective story of the mysteries within the divided self. It's brilliantly written with a penetrating nondual intelligence. I couldn't put it down!" ---Gail D. Storey, author of I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail

"Brent Robison's Ponckhockie Union walks the line between the erudite and the colloquial. And it walks that fine line impeccably. The full array of Robison's multi-faceted talent and polyglot interests are on display in these pages." ---Richard Klin, author of Petroleum Transfer Engineer

Brent Robison is the author of a collection of linked stories, The Principle of Ultimate Indivisibility (Bliss Plot Press, 2009). His life in the Catskill Mountains may be a metafiction.