Doctor of the World: Winner of the 2024 Open Chapbook Competition - Couverture souple

Brown, Fleda

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798888389263

Editeur : Finishing Line Press, 2025

Synopsis

If there is a center of gravity in this collection of prose poems, it is a cancer diagnosis, but looking outward, there is the gravity that keeps the spheres from flying apart, there is the gravity of our collective maladies, there is the way we inflict injuries on ourselves and others. The poem, "Crickets" says, "You're one of God's creatures, yet the angels and imps outnumber you by a long shot. They're out there jumping in and out of your notice like quarks and anti-quarks." And who is Doctor who keeps the world in balance? It is exuberance, not just of being alive, but of the wonderousness of loons, robins, cats, crickets, and human creatures. There is never a right answer to how to negotiate this life, but there is radiance everywhere in these poems, to light the way.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Fleda Brown's tenth collection of poems, Flying Through a Hole in the Storm (2021) won the Hollis Summers Prize from Ohio University Press and was an Indie finalist. Earlier poems can be found in The Woods Are On Fire: New & Selected Poems (University of Nebraska Press). Her work has appeared three times in The Best American Poetry and has won a Pushcart Prize, the Felix Pollak Prize, the Philip Levine Prize, and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writer's Award, and has twice been a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her recent memoir is Mortality, with Friends (Wayne State University Press, an MIPA Winner and Midwest Book Award winner in memoir). She was poet laureate of Delaware from 2001-07.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Finishing Line Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798888389263
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 36
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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