Taking the Occasion
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The eighth winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize is Daniel Brown's Taking the Occasion. From its opening lines, his book sounds a new note in poetry: "The thing about the old one about / The tree in the forest and nobody's around / And how it falls maybe with a sound, / Maybe not . . ." In poem after poem, Mr. Brown plays urban speech rhythms (much as Robert Frost played rural ones) across the back-beat of meter and rhyme. Distinctive in...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1566638011
ISBN13:9781566638012
Release Date:September 2008
Publisher:Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Length:80 Pages
Weight:0.52 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 8.7"
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