In the Laurels, Caught
Published on 7. May 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-1-934200-64-3 (ISBN)
Description
A major experimentalist digs up her rural roots in this portrait of flowery but never sweet dynamic regionalism.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 202 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
245 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-934200-64-3 (9781934200643)
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Person
Lee Ann Brown is Associate Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City. A poet and filmmaker whose first book, Polyverse (Sun&Moon, 1999), won the New American Poetry Series Award. Her second book, The Sleep That Changed Everything, appeared in 2003 from Wesleyan. She is also the founder and editor of the small press Tender Buttons.
Content
Daylily 6
"I wake up to a wall of moths" 7
Pollen Path 8
A Letter Out 9
"...Weed!" 11
Laurels Hells 13
Sketch Border Trace 14
Answering Machine 15
Rural Surreal 16
Black is the Color 17
What It's Like Up Here 18
Double Southern Register 20
Ponder Auto 22
Foamhenge 23
FREE ADMISSION to Our Sale 24
It reaches out to grab you 25
(floating lines
Microkosmos
On Organic Form 27
Outrageous Behavior
Racecar, a palindrome
The Only Joke I Can Remember 28
Porch Advice
overheard at ballad lecture
Little Black Boxes 29
Sheila Kaye on the Child Ballads
On working from history 30
Wind 31
Midsummer Cushion
Moss Pillow 32
Dear Other Miranda 33
Dousing for Dummies 34
Tomorrow Library 35
Bathing Suit Banter 36
Scratch Factor 37
Hey! 39
Boo! 40
Decoder Ring 41
The Dynamic Floorwalker 42
Focus 43
But I Didn't Get the Image 44
Pine needle propped against a bark 45
Fieldwork
An Elemental Year 47
Sweet August Clematis 49
After 51
Alianthus 53
Train Time 55
Equinox Honey Sonnet 58
Heard Tell (Allenstand) 59
At first blue 60
Coverlet 63
"I wake up to a wall of moths" 7
Pollen Path 8
A Letter Out 9
"...Weed!" 11
Laurels Hells 13
Sketch Border Trace 14
Answering Machine 15
Rural Surreal 16
Black is the Color 17
What It's Like Up Here 18
Double Southern Register 20
Ponder Auto 22
Foamhenge 23
FREE ADMISSION to Our Sale 24
It reaches out to grab you 25
(floating lines
Microkosmos
On Organic Form 27
Outrageous Behavior
Racecar, a palindrome
The Only Joke I Can Remember 28
Porch Advice
overheard at ballad lecture
Little Black Boxes 29
Sheila Kaye on the Child Ballads
On working from history 30
Wind 31
Midsummer Cushion
Moss Pillow 32
Dear Other Miranda 33
Dousing for Dummies 34
Tomorrow Library 35
Bathing Suit Banter 36
Scratch Factor 37
Hey! 39
Boo! 40
Decoder Ring 41
The Dynamic Floorwalker 42
Focus 43
But I Didn't Get the Image 44
Pine needle propped against a bark 45
Fieldwork
An Elemental Year 47
Sweet August Clematis 49
After 51
Alianthus 53
Train Time 55
Equinox Honey Sonnet 58
Heard Tell (Allenstand) 59
At first blue 60
Coverlet 63