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- Brain Camp
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
summary
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."
Table of Contents
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- Dedication
- pp. xi-xii
- Part I
- Winter Song
- p. 5
- Thanks Again
- pp. 6-7
- Explanations
- p. 8
- American Dream
- pp. 11-12
- Someone Else’s Life
- pp. 14-15
- Dairy Farm
- p. 16
- Things We Know
- p. 17
- Why Are People So Mean?
- pp. 18-19
- Use of Force
- pp. 20-21
- Breathalyzer
- p. 22
- In the Face, Hard
- p. 23
- Brain Camp
- p. 28
- Part II
- Watermelon
- pp. 31-32
- Made in Heaven
- p. 33
- Friar Towhee
- p. 35
- Questionable
- p. 38
- Woe to the Defeated
- p. 40
- The Cat’s Meow
- p. 44
- Sheep Tickle Me
- pp. 47-48
- Chrysanthemums
- pp. 49-52
- Part III
- Invisible Alpaca
- p. 57
- Plumbed Wine
- pp. 60-61
- Chelonian Rhapsody
- pp. 64-65
- Introspection after Fear Factor
- pp. 66-67
- Watch for Dwarfs,
- pp. 70-71
- Beauty Mark
- p. 72
- At 5 a.m., the Only Sounds
- pp. 75-76
- Thank You, Carol White
- pp. 77-78
- Approaching Poetry
- pp. 82-83
- That Thing
- pp. 84-85
- To Raise My Ghost
- p. 86
- The Good Survives
- pp. 87-88
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 89-90
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822980476
Related ISBN(s)
9780822963387
MARC Record
OCLC
904979155
Pages
102
Launched on MUSE
2015-03-20
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2015