Poetry
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Reunion The poems in Reunion insistently turn back toward sources: toward home and the idea of home, toward the body, and toward objects that return us to ourselves. They always surprise, moving from quantum mechanics, wildflowers, and a Bobcat driver to a woman killed by a flying deer, magma becoming rock, and an invasion of flying ants. Fleda Brown deftly unites daily frustrations and suffering with profound psychological, physical, and cosmic questions. "Herons are bigger
than egrets, though they have the same long legs. like poetry, just out of
reach, moving and making a bare flush grab its scrawny legs in
my hand, even if it nuzzled up to me." "From rigorously formalist to prose-poetic,
these poems, with their invariably eloquent details, are lessons
in sharp observation and what it is to be a woman with a grand
heart, a penetrating mind, and not least, a keen wit." "Things fall apart in these poems–memories, family, and the expanding universe are scattered into pieces, spread across imagination's space. But Brown also seeks to compose–or at least to imply the possibility of–their reunion. Cast in an impressive variety of forms, she manages her signature, magical metamorphoses, poetry soaring at its best, yet, somehow, never leaving the ground it rises from."–Dabney Stuart "The neighborly language of local
exchange and local enchantment, slipknot and memory, cell–stream
and the surgeon's knife, runs like springwater through the poems
of Fleda Brown. So perfectly tempered are the apprehensions of
metaphor, so cunning are the felicities of form–rhyming
as natural as human breath!–we're tempted to think it's
not art at all. Except for the radiance, which only art, and
a generous mind, can make."
Fleda Brown has her own web site, visit
www.English.udel.edu/fleda |
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Fleda
Brown is Poet Laureate of Delaware,
professor of English at the University of Delaware, and author
of Breathing In, Breathing Out, winner of the Philip Levine
Prize, and The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives.
Her poetry has been published in journals including Poetry,
Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, and Georgia Review.
This is her sixth collection of poems.
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