Why Dogs Stopped Flying: Poems
The solid rightness of image after image in Ken Brewer's poetry was never better than in Why Dogs Stopped Flying. His familiar style is plain-spoken, his humor reliable and self-ironic. Yet, in this collection perhaps more than in his earlier work, the particularity of the poet's insight i...
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | No linguistic content |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (47 pages) |
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| Other title: | Why Dogs Stopped Flying |
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| Summary: | The solid rightness of image after image in Ken Brewer's poetry was never better than in Why Dogs Stopped Flying. His familiar style is plain-spoken, his humor reliable and self-ironic. Yet, in this collection perhaps more than in his earlier work, the particularity of the poet's insight into the physical world--and the warmth of his affection for it--combine to create an unexpected transcendence. Beasts and bodies are transformed in his lines, and our dim, unremarkable lives on this shadowed earth become somehow more luminous--small suns opening in the dark, small words to the moon. |
| ISBN: | 9780874216451 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |