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In the Laurels, Caught - (Fence Modern Poets) by Lee Ann Brown (Paperback)

In the Laurels, Caught - (Fence Modern Poets) by  Lee Ann Brown (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A major experimentalist digs up her rural roots in this portrait of flowery but never sweet dynamic regionalism.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>In the Laurels, Caught</i> is a collection of lighthearted, deep-rooted poems written around the Appalachian region of North Carolina in Madison County. An adventurous, intellectually restless native, Lee Ann Brown writes out of attachment but with the slant of a transplanted outsider. She investigates elements of local language, musicality, material culture, and landscape, using collage, found poetry, and oral history and anecdote.</p><p><i>A Daylily's blossom<br>only lasts one day</i></p><p><i>Binnorie O Binorie O</i></p><p><i>My grandmother showed me<br>how to have my say</i></p><p><i>O the glory O the glory</i></p><p><i>Now every time I see a faded drooping bud</i></p><p><i>I deadhead it like she did so the rest can live on</i></p><p><i>The story O the story</i></p><p><b>Lee Ann Brown</b> is professor of English at St. John's University. Her book <i>Polyverse</i> won the New American Poetry Series Award. <i>The Sleep That Changed Everything</i> appeared in 2003. She is founding editor of the small press Tender Buttons.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Lee Ann Brown is Associate Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City. A poet and filmmaker whose first book, <i>Polyverse</i> (Sun&Moon, 1999), won the New American Poetry Series Award. Her second book, <i>The Sleep That Changed Everything, </i> appeared in 2003 from Wesleyan. She is also the founder and editor of the small press Tender Buttons.<br>

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