Woods Are on Fire - New and Selected Poems

Informationen zum Autor Fleda Brown is professor emerita at the University of Delaware and is a faculty member of the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. She served as Delaware’s poet laureate from 2001 to 2007 and is the author of nine poetry books, including The Devil’s Child and Fishing With Blood, and two memoirs, including Driving with DvöÁk (Nebraska, 2010). Her work has twice appeared in The Best American Poetry and has won numerous awards, including a Pushcart Prize and the Felix Pollak Prize.    Klappentext The Woods Are On Fire is Fleda Brown’s deeply human and intensely felt poetic explorations of her life and world. Her account includes her brain-damaged brother, a rickety family cottage, a puzzling and sometimes frightening father, a timid mother, and the adult life that follows with its loves, divorces, and serious illnesses. Visually and emotionally rich, Brown’s poems call on Einstein, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Law and Order, Elvis, and Beethoven. They stand before the Venus de Milo as well as the moon, as they measure distances between what we make as art and who we are as humans. In wide-ranging forms-from the sestina to prose poems-they focus on the natural world as well as the Delaware legislature and the inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton.The Woods Are On Fire includes nearly fifty new poems, along with poems selected from seven previous books, showcasing an influential American poet’s work over the last few decades.  Zusammenfassung Offer a deeply human and intensely felt poetic explorations of Fleda Brown's life and world. Her account includes her brain-damaged brother! a rickety family cottage! a puzzling and sometimes frightening father! a timid mother! and the adult life that follows with its loves! divorces! and serious illnesses. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments     Introduction by Ted Kooser     Backfires     I. from Fishing with Blood (1988) Garden     To Mark, My Retarded Brother, Who Lived 20 Years and Learned to Speak 300 Words     Arch     For Grandmother Beth     A Plain Philosophical Choice     Out Back     Canoe     Whaler     Catching Turtles     Fishing with Blood     Apalachee Bay     The Scholar’s Cat     Saving a Life     He Says How It Was     Emily Dickinson’s Love     Love, for Instance     from “O’Keeffe”     She Learns to Walk     She Learns to Talk     A New Yorker Visits Her Exhibition     She Marries the Photographer     An Expert Explains Her Work     II. from Do Not Peel the Birches (1993) Elvis at the End of History     Do Not Peel the Birches     A Long and Happy Life     Learning to Dance     After the Rain     Loon Cries     Night Swimming     My Father Takes My Retarded Brother Sailing     If I Were a Swan     Dock     A Few Lines from Rehoboth Beach     Mississippi River, near Cape Girardeau, MO      Mother of the Bride Dress     St. Paul’s and St. George’s Church, Edinburgh     Farthest North Southern Town     Burdett Palmer’s Foot     Kitty Hawk     Anhinga     Bombay Hook     III. from Breathing In, Breathing Out (2002) Fourth of July Parade, Albion, WA     Buying the King-Sized Bed     Cosmic Pitching     Somewhere     Dogs     Highway 5     The Poet Laureate Addresses the Delaware Legislature Opening Its First Session after September 11     Rumors of Changes Circulate on Penguins     Cow Falling     Spring     Leaving Lewisburg     Mary Rose Quotes James Joyce on the Cliffs at Bray     Sunday Morning     Chicken Bone     Hyperspace     Language     Chat     For the Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton, 1997     Your Body     I Write My Mother a Poem     Einstein on Mercer Street     IV. from The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives (2004) Tillywilly Fog     I Escape with My Mother in the DeSoto     Elvis Aron and Jesse Garon     Memphis Discovers Elvis     Elvis Goes to the Army     Shaking Hands with Nixon     Sputnik, 1957     Elvis Sings Gospel     In...

Product details

• Authors: Fleda Brown, Fleda Brown Jackson
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9780803294943
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-9494-3
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry; Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama