Jackson, Fleda Brown
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Jackson, Fleda Brown
Summary: "Golda Meir once said, "Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do." The poems in Fleda Brown's brave collection, her thirteenth, take readers on a journey through the fury of this storm. There are plenty of tragedies to weather here, both personal and universal: the death of a father, a child's terminal cancer, the extinction of bees, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio University Press 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Wisconsin Press 2007
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Summary: The Woods Are On Fire is Fleda Brown’s deeply human and intensely felt poetic explorations of her life and world. Her account includes her brain-damaged brother, a rickety family cottage, a puzzling and sometimes frightening father, a timid mother, and the adult life that follows with its loves, divorces, and serious illnesses. Visually and emotionally rich, Brown’s poems call on Einstein,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anhinga Press 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watershed Center 2010
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Jackson, Fleda Brown
Summary: "Mortality, With Friends is a collection of lyrical essays from Fleda Brown, a writer and caretaker, of her father and sometimes her husband, who lives with the nagging uneasiness that her cancer could return. Memoir in feel, the book muses on the nature of art, of sculpture, of the loss of bees and trees, the end of marriages, and among other things, the loss of hearing and of life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carnegie Mellon University Press 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Purdue University Press 1993
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Summary: All our lives are made of moments, both simple and sublime, all of which in some way partake of the cultural moment. Fleda Brown is that rare writer who, in narrating the incidents and observations of her life, turns her story, by wit and insight and a poet’s gift, into something more. This is an unconventional memoir. A series of lyrical essays about life in a maddeningly complex family during...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Purdue University Press 1988
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Watershed Center 2010