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Award-winning poet Fleda Brown's thirteenth book examines life and death through a timely, urgent collection of contemplative poems about damage, pain, and loss.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
I. Not Dying
Come Moths
Wakened by Crows
It Isn’t That You Forget Things
Museum
Milkweed
Glasses
Nothing Comes Together to Mean What I Meant
Afternoons at the Lake
Not Dying
Dear Pablo Picasso
Ode on Terror
Sing
II. Treatises
Treatises
III. Old Woman in Swimsuit
Old Woman in Swimsuit
Brief
The Art of Composition
Sea Otters
A Poem for Objects in My House
Ode on Sadness
Ode on Bees
Dear Frida Kahlo
The Goldilocks Zone
Wounded Dog
Peaceable Kingdom
Stalking the Wild
IV. Twenty Letters in Spring
Twenty Letters in Spring
V. Damage
Damage
Joy
Letter from Battle Creek
Love Song Including Moon
Flying through a Hole in the Storm
Floater
Dear Grandma Moses
Atmospheric Optics
Confession
Enjoy
Resting in the Arms
Running with Knives
History Is Not a Great Tree
Weeping Alaskan Cedar
Acknowledgments
Notes
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Fleda Brown has won the Felix Pollak Prize, a Pushcart Prize, the Philip Levine Prize, and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award, and she has twice been a finalist for the National Poetry Series. She is professor emerita at the University of Delaware, where she taught for twenty-seven years. She was poet laureate of Delaware 2001-7. She now lives with her husband, Jerry Beasley, in Traverse City, Michigan.
Zusammenfassung
Award-winning poet Fleda Brown’s thirteenth book examines life and death through a timely, urgent collection of contemplative poems about damage, pain, and loss.
