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The news : poems / Jeffrey Brown.
Van Pelt Library PS3602.R6985 A6 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Jeffrey, 1956- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Journalism--Poetry.
- Journalism.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 95 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- In his first collection of poems, Jeffrey Brown explores the big topics of the day-the news-in a voice beyond the limitations of journalistic speech. A veteran of national news reporting, Brown (PBS NewsHour) turns his attention to the narratives of artists, inmates, cadets, and survivors of the world's tragedies, as well as to the profound intimacy of family. Brown conveys both suffering and triumph with a music that pays tribute to the multitude of human voices, opening his own life and expression for public viewing. Full of self-examination, brutal honesty, and wry humor, The News captures not what's on one side of the lens but all that surrounds it. from "Haiti", Days later, the last light high in the Central Plateau so far so bone-crushed by the road (I'd argued against going), Saut d'Eau. They filled the benches and told us of death upon death. A man who'd lost his son: "I am a bird left without a branch to land on." Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Nightly News
- Nightly News 7
- Song: Lead Story 8
- Haiti 10
- Beirut 11
- Joplin 13
- Headlines 1 15
- News Flow 16
- West Point 17
- Rain Shadow Review 19
- Campaign 2012 21
- European Union 24
- Intervention 25
- Song of the News 26
- Part 2 Questions
- The Art of the Interview 29
- Philip Roth 31
- Taha Muhammad Ali 32
- Mark Morris 34
- Headlines 2 36
- Richard Avedon 37
- Gore Vidal 38
- Suzanne Farrell: September 10, 2001 39
- Brice Marden 41
- Neanderthal 42
- Museum of Modern Art 44
- Night 45
- Interview 46
- Part 3 The News from Home
- Letters to the Editor 51
- Voice 53
- The Influence of Anxiety 55
- Sam Brown 57
- Side Effects 59
- Television: An Argument 60
- Headlines 3 62
- Memory 63
- Succession 65
- The News inside His Head 67
- Channel One: Guide 69
- Cortona 71
- Forecast 72
- Part 4 The News at Midnight
- Theater of War 75
- Honor Roll 77
- History 82
- Obituary 83
- Poetry and Prose 85
- Haiti: Kacite 86.
- ISBN:
- 9781556594809
- 1556594801
- OCLC:
- 889666487
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