A Little Grief Break: The Collected Poems - Couverture souple

Brown, Derrick C

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1949342883 ISBN 13 : 9781949342888

Editeur : Write Bloody Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

A Little Grief Break is a thirty-year retrospective from one of contemporary poetry's most electrifying voices—a collection that refuses to sit still. Derrick C. Brown has spent three decades honing a singular poetic style that marries devastating emotional precision with sharp humor, bar-stool philosophy with literary craft, and the raw immediacy of performance with the carefully wrought architecture of the page. This 300-page collection gathers the essential poems from Brown's ten previous books alongside nineteen new works in Night Collapser, creating a portrait of a poet who has never stopped taking risks. Here are poems that detonate with laughter before breaking your heart in the next breath.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Derrick C. Brown is an award-winning poet, storyteller, comedian, and President of Write Bloody Publishing, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit independent poetry press he founded in 2004 that has published 185+ titles by poets including Andrea Gibson, Sarah Kay, and Clint Smith. Brown is a former paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne who discovered poetry in a foxhole and has spent three decades transforming it into a living, breathing art form accessible to all. His innovative fusion of poetry and comedy earned him Paste Magazine's Comedy Album of the Year (2023), and The New York Times celebrates his work as "a rekindling of faith in the weird, hilarious, shocking, beautiful power of words." He is the author of ten poetry collections including the retrospective "A Little Grief Break" and four children's books, winning the Texas Book of the Year award for Poetry in 2013. Currently serving as the first-ever Poet Laureate of Los Feliz (2025-2026), Brown has performed at 1,800+ venues across 30 years of touring, from basement shows in Long Beach to major stages like The Tonight Show, This American Life, and San Francisco Sketchfest. His workshop series "Your River is Waiting" has reached poets at all levels, including incarcerated communities and high school students. Brown began his LA journey performing at open mics in Long Beach's underground poetry scene, running poetry cruises on gondola boats through the canals, and driving to poetry salons in Silverlake and Los Feliz and the valley. LA is a city whose creative energy has fueled both his art and his mission. He tours extensively via motorcycle, bringing explosive performances and transformative workshops to communities nationwide, with Write Bloody's headquarters now located in North Hollywood.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Write Bloody Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1949342883
• ISBN 13: 9781949342888
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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