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Flying through a Hole in the Storm: Poems: Hollis Summers Poetry Prize

Autor Fleda Brown
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 mar 2021
A keenly observant collection of poems on disaster, aging, and apocalypse. Golda Meir once said, “Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there’s nothing you can do.” The poems in Fleda Brown’s brave collection, her thirteenth, take readers on a journey through the fury of this storm. There are plenty of tragedies to weather here, both personal and universal: the death of a father, a child’s terminal cancer, the extinction of bees, and environmental degradation. Brown’s poems are wise, honest, and deeply observant meditations on contemporary science, physics, family, politics, and aging. With tributes to visionary artists, including Frida Kahlo, Pablo Picasso, and Grandma Moses, as well as to life’s terrors, sadnesses, and joys, these works are beautiful dispatches from a renowned poet who sees the shadows lengthening and imagines what they might look like from the other side.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780821424445
ISBN-10: 0821424440
Pagini: 88
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Ohio University Press
Seria Hollis Summers Poetry Prize


Recenzii

“[This is] a hybrid book, a combination of poetry and prose. It proves that at high levels of composition there is little distinction between the two. A superb accomplishment.”—Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and distinguished professor emeritus of creative writing at Stockton University

“It is easy to forget that only the rarest of people have something interesting to say about themselves. But Fleda Brown proves a mesmerizing exception—anything she cares to share is manna for our deepest needs.”—Foreword Reviews

“Fleda Brown has such a wide ranging intelligence, such a large and quirky variety of subjects, and such facility with language that you come away from her poems amazed at the emotional impact under the entertaining and colloquial surfaces.”&m

“Cast in an impressive variety of forms, Brown manages her signature, magical metamorphoses, poetry skying at its best, yet, somehow, never leaving the ground it rises from.”—Dabney Stuart

“To read these poems is to look through a newly washed window; the world is strangely bright and, at the same time, frighteningly familiar. This is a difficult effect to achieve—one that only succeeds when it is not an effect, but something ef

Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

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

Descriere

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.