Author |
: Lee Ann Brown |
Publisher |
: Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages |
: 189 |
Release |
: 2015-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780819576156 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0819576158 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Sleep That Changed Everything by : Lee Ann Brown
Download or read book The Sleep That Changed Everything written by Lee Ann Brown and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering both subtle and immediate pleasures, Lee Ann Brown's generous new book extends her unmistakable, original voice, every bit as Southern as it is avant-garde, gracious without being naive. Abounding in a playfulness of style, including songs and ballads, the poems in The Sleep That Changed Everything are by turns funny, serious, insightful and moving. Botanical and scientific language are used here as collage elements to chart cycles of desire and emotional transformation. Brown is committed to Whitman's idea that we all have many selves; thus her work embraces the immediacy of the New York School, the personal and literary wildness of the Beats, the word play and political astuteness of Language poetry and an eroticism all her own. In poems that are both highly literate and plain-spoken, Brown makes the life of the soul directly available in all its renegade garb.