The woods are on fire : new and selected poems / Fleda Brown ; introduction by Ted Kooser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Fleda Brown, 1944- author.

Contributor:

Kooser, Ted, writer of introduction.

Series:

Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]

Summary:

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 andOrder, 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 fiftynew poems, along with poems selected from seven previous books, showcasing an influential American poet's work overthe last few decades.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction by Ted Kooser

Backfires

I FROM FISHING WITH BLOOD | 1988

II FROM DO NOT PEEL THE BIRCHES | 1993

III FROM BREATHING IN, BREATHING OUT | 2002

IV FROM THE WOMEN WHO LOVED ELVIS ALL THEIR LIVES | 2004

V FROM REUNION | 2007

VI FROM LOON CRY: SELECTED AND NEW MICHIGAN POEMS | 2010

VII FROM NO NEED OF SYMPATHY | 2013

viii VIII NEW POEMS.

Notes:

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781496200327

1496200322

9781496200341

1496200349