Brain Camp
Published on 15. March 2015
103 pages
978-0-8229-8047-6 (ISBN)
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Powered by a fierce, compassionate intelligence, Brain Camp explores with clarity and vividness a wide spectrum of emotions-love to hate, tenderness to brutality-all from a perspective both universal yet distinctly Webb's. Metaphors of startling aptness and originality, a voice at once endearing and provocative, high musicality, propulsive energy, wild imaginative leaps, as well as a mastery of diction from lyricism to street-speak, create a reading experience of the first order. These poems go down easy, but pack a wallop. As Robert Frost said poetry should do, Brain Camp "begins in delight and ends in wisdom."
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Brain Camp
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03/2015
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Charles Harper Webb has published twelve books of poetry, including Brain Camp. Webb's awards in poetry include the Morse Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the Felix Pollock Prize, and the Benjamin Saltman Prize. Webb is Professor of English at California State University, Long Beach, where he teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Dedication
- Part I
- Moth
- Winter Song
- Thanks Again
- Explanations
- Respect
- American Dream
- Postmodernism Missed the Opry
- Someone Else's Life
- Dairy Farm
- Things We Know
- Why Are People So Mean?
- Use of Force
- Breathalyzer
- In the Face, Hard
- How Can I Exceed Your Expectations?
- Suitcase
- Hospital
- Brain Camp
- Part II
- Watermelon
- Made in Heaven
- Praying Mantis on a Chain-Link Fence
- Friar Towhee
- Strangers
- Questionable
- He Bangs
- Woe to the Defeated
- The Sad Case of History
- After the 5-K Walk to Beat Breast Cancer
- The Cat's Meow
- My Son Dreams That a Shark Ate Me
- Fishsuit
- Sheep Tickle Me
- Chrysanthemums
- Webb Could Say Less, May Be?
- Nada
- Part III
- Invisible Alpaca
- Elixir
- Plumbed Wine
- Thirst
- Chelonian Rhapsody
- Introspection after Fear Factor
- Haunted
- Watch for Dwarfs,
- Beauty Mark
- The Wish to Jump in a Car and Just Drive
- The Best Part of the Day
- At 5 a.m., the Only Sounds
- Thank You, Carol White
- Stowaway
- Celeste
- Approaching Poetry
- That Thing
- To Raise My Ghost
- The Good Survives
- Acknowledgments
