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Copper Canyon Press
May 2015
On Sale: May 18, 2015
80 pages
ISBN: 1556594801
EAN: 9781556594809
Kindle: B00WQ57LDQ
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Fiction Poetry
Emmy-award winning journalist Jeffrey Brown explores the
intersections between politics and poetry in his debut book
The News. From a high-security prison in Arizona to a
West Point classroom to a slum in Haiti, Brown's poems share
the perspectives of inmates, cadets, and survivors. Brown's
voice is introspective and compassionate as he addresses
both the "news from home" and natural disasters that cause
large-scale suffering. In Brown's own words, poetry is an
"accounting of what it means to be alive in this world," and
his work unites the "often disconnected worlds of news and
poetry." Headlines 1 "Bomb Explodes in
a Crowded Market"
Winds blow, my friends are
scattered "Dow Falls on Jobs Numbers"
I add
and add and it doesn't add up "President to
Address the Nation"
I seek a way out, a way in –
away "White Smoke: Habemus Papam"
I turned
for a moment – where did she go? "U.S. Demands
End to Cyber Attacks"
I've forgotten every book I've
read "Detroit: Crisis Born of Bad
Decisions"
This is the life I choose now
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