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Powered by a fierce, compassionate intelligence, Brain Camp explores with clarity and vividness a wide spectrum of emotions—love to hate, tenderness to brutality—all from a perspective both universal yet distinctly Webb's. Metaphors of startling aptness and originality, a voice at once endearing and provocative, high musicality, propulsive energy, wild imaginative leaps, as well as a mastery of diction from lyricism to street-speak, create a reading experience of the first order. These poems go down easy, but pack a wallop. As Robert Frost said poetry should do, Brain Camp "begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title page, Series page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-x
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  1. Dedication
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Part I
  1. Moth
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  1. Winter Song
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  1. Thanks Again
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  1. Explanations
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  1. Respect
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  1. American Dream
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  1. Postmodernism Missed the Opry
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  1. Someone Else’s Life
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  1. Dairy Farm
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  1. Things We Know
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  1. Why Are People So Mean?
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  1. Use of Force
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  1. Breathalyzer
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  1. In the Face, Hard
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  1. How Can I Exceed Your Expectations?
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  1. Suitcase
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  1. Hospital
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  1. Brain Camp
  2. p. 28
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  1. Part II
  1. Watermelon
  2. pp. 31-32
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  1. Made in Heaven
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  1. Praying Mantis on a Chain-Link Fence
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  1. Friar Towhee
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  1. Strangers
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  1. Questionable
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  1. He Bangs
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  1. Woe to the Defeated
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  1. The Sad Case of History
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  1. After the 5-K Walk to Beat Breast Cancer
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  1. The Cat’s Meow
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  1. My Son Dreams That a Shark Ate Me
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  1. Fishsuit
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  1. Sheep Tickle Me
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  1. Chrysanthemums
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  1. Nada
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  1. Part III
  1. Invisible Alpaca
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  1. Elixir
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  1. Plumbed Wine
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  1. Thirst
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  1. Chelonian Rhapsody
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  1. Introspection after Fear Factor
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  1. Haunted
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  1. Watch for Dwarfs,
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  1. Beauty Mark
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  1. The Wish to Jump in a Car and Just Drive
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  1. The Best Part of the Day
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  1. At 5 a.m., the Only Sounds
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  1. Thank You, Carol White
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  1. Stowaway
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  1. Celeste
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  1. Approaching Poetry
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  1. That Thing
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  1. To Raise My Ghost
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  1. The Good Survives
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Back Cover
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