The Sleep That Changed Everything
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The Sleep That Changed Everything by Lee Ann Brown
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.
"An astonishing, wonderful book, top-of-the-line poetryPoem by poem there is the pathway of her botanical vocabulary through a long poem - flowering, leafing, curling edges of her loving mind and heart. Her 'life long love of language' breathes here." - Robin Blaser, author of Even On Sunday; "Shout, whisper, and strum these mercurial poems, old-time lyrics, and inventive translations and transpositions. Lee Ann Brown's The Sleep That Changed Everything is a sprung formalist ode to the 'open possibilities' of song." - Charles Bernstein, author of With Strings
Lee Ann Brown is Assistant Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City. A poet and filmmaker whose first book, Polyverse (1999), won the New American Poetry Series Award, she is also the founder and editor of the small press Tender Buttons.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780819566225 |
| ISBN 10 | 0819566225 |
| Title | The Sleep That Changed Everything |
| Author | Lee Ann Brown |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
| Year published | 2003-04-29 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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