Help Is on the Way (Four Lakes Poetry Series) - Softcover

Brehm, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 029928624X ISBN 13: 9780299286248

Verlag: UNIV OF WISCONSIN PR, 2012

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Help Is On the Way takes readers from the subways of New York City to the savannas of Paleolithic Africa to the transplant ward of Kyoto University Hospital. But whatever their setting, these poems are enlivened by the subtle music, penetrating wit, and remarkable emotional honesty that won high praise for John Brehm&;s earlier collection, Sea of Faith, and constitute his singularly engaging voice.

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John Brehm&;s poems have appeared in Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, Gulf Coast, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner, the Missouri Review, and many other journals and anthologies. He is author of Sea of Faith, winner of the 2004 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, and associate editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry. He lived in New York City for many years and now resides in Portland, Oregon.

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“I need to accept you as you are,” she said,

“so you need to become the kind

of person I can accept.” I was

becoming bewildered, but I don’t

think that’s what she meant.

“Life Insurance,” she said. “You

don’t have any Life Insurance.”

“But we’ve only known each other

three months. Aren’t we jumping ahead?”

“Look,” she said, “I don’t want

to have to take my child and move

back to Chicago and live with my mother.

I don’t want to have to take my child

to a public clinic. And I don’t want to

have to ride you and nag you and ask you…

—excerpt from “Of Love and Life Insurance: An Argument”

 

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF WISCONSIN PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 029928624X
• ISBN 13: 9780299286248
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 68
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