Deborah Brown's second collection looks with imagination to the limitless possibilities of language, following surprising associations to find that which feels deep and true. Threaded with echoes of familial trauma--a sister's battle with cancer, a...
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Deborah Brown's second collection looks with imagination to the limitless possibilities of language, following surprising associations to find that which feels deep and true. Threaded with echoes of familial trauma--a sister's battle with cancer, a brother's struggles with depression--these lyric poems reveal an open-hearted speaker who finds solace in the beauties of celestial navigation, the flowers along the railroad tracks, and the brushwork of Vermeer and Van Gogh"-- Voices -- Write about this -- The human half -- Landscapes -- Matisse's vase says -- Memory box -- Switching hands -- Passion flower -- Not at rest -- In black and white and red -- A woman holds a balance in Jan Vermeer's painting -- Ocular -- Midden -- To birdsong and owlfly -- The unpainted house -- What I know about the night sky -- Ghost prattle -- The red suit -- A piece of the moon -- A new geography -- Here's looking -- Next to the railroad tracks -- I'm done -- On the day you come back -- Fingerprints -- Navigation -- The nightmare -- I am so dark -- Despair -- What to call a chicken -- After the beginning, before the end -- At the tree line -- Tidal -- Various rains -- Oyster River Seafood Market -- Collage: whispers, news -- The white spruce -- The understory -- From a garden in Corniglia -- Star/garden -- Just to be clear -- The green scent of snow -- Tomaz Salamun meets Metka Krasovec -- Dear Metka Krasovec -- Wrong turn in a snowstorm -- In the Cambrian -- Lilac manual -- Winter white -- In the snowfield.
"Loosely based on the medieval bestiary, The Rapture Index examines the relationship between animals, humans, and storytelling. Harnessing the bestiary's combination of religious parable, encyclopedia, and art, Molly Reid journeys deep into suburbia...
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"Loosely based on the medieval bestiary, The Rapture Index examines the relationship between animals, humans, and storytelling. Harnessing the bestiary's combination of religious parable, encyclopedia, and art, Molly Reid journeys deep into suburbia to reveal characters struggling to navigate desire and responsibility: the desire to indulge their baser instincts while still fulfilling the expectations of society and family. Filled with moments of curiosity, misunderstanding, fervor, and heart, these stories offer a new twist on familiar landscapes as they explore what happens in the places where the wilderness has been tamed when we try to deny our own animal nature"-- Happy you're here -- Bestiary I: the neighbor's bees -- The permutations of A -- Bestiary II: suburban fox -- Dog story -- Bestiary III: attic raccoon -- The first location -- Anatomy is destiny -- Bestiary IV: Steller's jay -- Apocalypso -- Bestiary V: chimney swifts -- 3d printing: a love story -- Summer people -- Bestiary VI: one hamster -- Adventures in wildlife -- Fall from grace -- All men -- The rapture index -- Bestiary VII: laundromat bobcat -- Come closer -- Bestiary VIII: the alligators.
