Taking the Occasion (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781566638012)

Vendor: Daniel Brown
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Format: Hardcover
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Taking the Occasion

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Taking the Occasion

$27.00
Format: Hardcover
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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. In a time when many poets see subjects as superfluous, Brown demonstrates the abiding power of an arresting premise, much as music derives life from a memorable tune. His work repeatedly sounds emotional or philosophical depths, yet he isn't above eliciting a laugh in the process.

Author: Daniel Brown
ISBN-10: 1566638011
ISBN-13: 9781566638012
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Language: English
Published: 09/11/2008
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.66h x 6.06w x 0.45d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/01/2008 pg. 12
By Daniel Brown
By Daniel Brown
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Daniel Brown's poems have appeared in Poetry, Partisan Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, The New Criterion, and other journals. Winner of a Pushcart Prize, he has been widely anthologized in volumes such as Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins, and Fathers, edited by David Ray. He holds a master's degree in musicology from Cornell University and has taught at Cornell and Dartmouth College. His Why Bach?, an appreciation of Bach's music, is available on the Internet. He lives in Baldwin, New York.

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