Deborah Brown

Walking the Dog's Shadow

Poems

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Selected by Tony Hoagland as winner of the ninth annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: BOA ED
• Seitenzahl: 92
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 150mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9781934414477
• ISBN-10: 1934414476
• Artikelnr.: 31724555

Autorenporträt

Deborah Brown's book, Walking the Dog's Shadow, is the 2010 winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Award from BOA Editions. Brown is an editor, with Maxine Kumin and Annie Finch, of Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics (Univ. of Arkansas Press, 2005) and a translator, with Richard Jackson and Susan Thomas, of The Last Voyage: Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli (Red Hen Press, 2010). Her poems have appeared in Margie, Rattle, The Alaska Quarterly, Stand, the Mississippi Review and others. Brown teaches literature and writing at the University of New Hampshire-Manchester where she won an award for Excellence in Teaching. She lives on a former dairy farm in Warner, New Hampshire, with her husband, George Brown, and four cats. Tony Hoagland was Born on November 19, 1953, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Tony Hoagland is the author of witty, poingnant poems that comment on contemporary American life and culture. His books include Unincorporated Personas in the Late Honda Dynasty (Graywolf Press, 2010), What Narcissism Means to Me (2003), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Donkey Gospel (1998), which received the James Laughlin Award; and Sweet Ruin (1992), chosen by Donald Justice for the 1992 Brittingham Prize in Poetry and winner of the Zacharis Award from Emerson College.Hoagland's other honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fellowship to the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the O. B. Hardison Prize for Poetry and Teaching from the Folger Shakespeare Library, the 2008 Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers magazine, as well as the Poetry Foundation's 2005 Mark Twain Award in recognition of his contribution to humor in American poetry. He currently teaches at the University of Houston and Warren Wilson College.

Inhaltsangabe

I. DON'T
ASK...........................................................................................................1
Proof.......................................................................................................................2
Small
Sorrows...........................................................................................................3
Don't
Ask.................................................................................................................4
The Shoe That
Dropped.........................................................................................5
Thick and
Thin........................................................................................................6
Walking the Dog's
Shadow....................................................................................7
Empty
Red...............................................................................................................8
Reprise.....................................................................................................................9
The Stalled
Bus......................................................................................................10
Askew
.....................................................................................................................11
The Back of the
Bike..............................................................................................12
Man Saves Dog's
Life.............................................................................................13
On
Alert..................................................................................................................14
Narratively
Speaking...............................................................................................15
II.
LISTEN................................................................................................................16
Clue........................................................................................................................
17
Listen......................................................................................................................
18
The
Trap.................................................................................................................
19
On Not Knowing Your
Father...............................................................................
20
The Scarlet Letter Law Struck Down in Massachusetts, Spring,
2003.............. 21
Mamaloschen.........................................................................................................
22
In Spite of
Time......................................................................................................
24
My
Double....................................................................................................................25
Elegy for My
Sister..................................................................................................26
The
Graviton............................................................................................................27
String
Theories......................................................................................................28
The One for
Me......................................................................................................29
June
Bug.................................................................................................................
30
Last
Things.............................................................................................................31
III READ BETWEEN THE
LINES...........................................................................32
A Family
Story......................................................................................................
33
Read Between the
Lines.......................................................................................34
Brokenhearted......................................................................................................35
Isadora's
Scarf.......................................................................................................36
For the
Cousins......................................................................................................37
The Night Is
Balmy................................................................................................38
The Figure in the
Carpet.......................................................................................39
Behind the
Door.....................................................................................................40
Stories.....................................................................................................................41
Lake Massasecum, November,
2000....................................................................42
The Museum of Your
Life......................................................................................43
Magritte's
Dog........................................................................................................44
GPS
System.............................................................................................................45
Pastoral...................................................................................................................46
Concerning the K-Mart Parking Lot in
Lompoc...................................................47
Blackout..................................................................................................................48
After and
Before......................................................................................................49
The Chicken
Soup...................................................................................................50
For Another
Time...................................................................................................52