Ascension: Poems by Brownlee, J. Scott

Ascension: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781680030457)

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Format: Paperback
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Ascension: Poems by Brownlee, J. Scott

Ascension: Poems

$8.95
Ascension: Poems by Brownlee, J. Scott

Ascension: Poems

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Format: Paperback
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Set in the drought-plagued landscape of Central Texas, Ascension is a collection of lyric poems that chronicles life in and around Llano, Texas (population 3,033). Brownlee's poems meditate on the inescapability of place.
Organ Solo with Oblivion and Gar

Skittish fish lay eggs
in this shallow stone
cleft of an algae chorus.
Turn my soul into song,
if you can, River Lord.
Treat believing the same
as each minnow slipping
coin-like into deep murk.
Your spirit mimics me
unblinking, fishbone
face framing brackish
absence, saying, Kneel
into this. Lean low,
sinner, & drink. Bitter
infidel, swallow the black
granite whole if you are not
afraid of what comes after it:
___________. Live forever.

Author: J. Scott Brownlee
ISBN-10: 1680030450
ISBN-13: 9781680030457
Publisher: Trp: The University Press of Shsu
Language: English
Published: 10/19/2015
Pages: 48
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.19lbs
Size: 10.02h x 4.75w x 0.15d
By J. Scott Brownlee
By J. Scott Brownlee
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J. SCOTT BROWNLEE is a founding member of the Localists, a literary collective that emphasizes place-based writing of personal witness, cultural memory, and the aesthetically marginalized working class. His poems appear in The Kenyon Review, Narrative, Beloit Poetry Journal, RATTLE, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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