The eighth winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize is Daniel Brown's Taking the Occasion. From its opening lines, his book sounds a new note in poetry: The thing about the old one about / The tree in the forest and nobody's around / And how it falls maybe with a sound, / Maybe not . . . In poem after poem, Mr. Brown plays urban speech rhythms (much as Robert Frost played rural ones) across the back-beat of meter and rhyme. Distinctive in matter as well as in manner, Taking the Occasion addresses subjects that range from a moment's fancy to stirring ruminations on existence. Brown's work repeatedly sounds emotional or philosophical depths, yet he isn't above eliciting a laugh in the process. The New Criterion, which has published poetry since 1984, is recognized as one of the foremost contemporary venues for poetry with a regard for traditional meter and poetic form. Building on its commitment to serious poetry,
| Autor: | Brown, Daniel |
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| ISBN: | 9781566638012 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Ivan R. Dee Publisher |
| Veröffentlicht: | 11.09.2008 |
By Daniel Brown