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The human half : poems / Deborah Brown.

Van Pelt Library PS3602.R6944 A6 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Brown, Deborah, 1948- author.
Contributor:
Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
Series:
American poets continuum series ; v. 173.
American poets continuum series ; no. 173
Standardized Title:
Poems. Selections
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American poetry--21st century.
American poetry.
Genre:
Poetry.
Physical Description:
80 pages ; 23 cm.
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2019.
Summary:
Deborah Brown's second collection looks with imagination to the limitless possibilities of language, following surprising associations to find that which feels deep and true. Threaded with echoes of familial trauma--a sister's battle with cancer, a brother's struggles with depression--these lyric poems reveal an open-hearted speaker who finds solace in the beauties of celestial navigation, the flowers along the railroad tracks, and the brushwork of Vermeer and Van Gogh"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Voices
Write about this
The human half
Landscapes
Matisse's vase says
Memory box
Switching hands
Passion flower
Not at rest
In black and white and red
A woman holds a balance in Jan Vermeer's painting
Ocular
Midden
To birdsong and owlfly
The unpainted house
What I know about the night sky
Ghost prattle
The red suit
A piece of the moon
A new geography
Here's looking
Next to the railroad tracks
I'm done
On the day you come back
Fingerprints
Navigation
The nightmare
I am so dark
Despair
What to call a chicken
After the beginning, before the end
At the tree line
Tidal
Various rains
Oyster River Seafood Market
Collage: whispers, news
The white spruce
The understory
From a garden in Corniglia
Star/garden
Just to be clear
The green scent of snow
Tomaz Salamun meets Metka Krasovec
Dear Metka Krasovec
Wrong turn in a snowstorm
In the Cambrian
Lilac manual
Winter white
In the snowfield.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
Other Format:
Online version: Brown, Deborah, 1948- author. Human half
ISBN:
9781942683803
1942683804
OCLC:
1050610951

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