Lightered: New and Selected Poems - Softcover

Brock, Van K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0938078844 ISBN 13: 9780938078845

Publisher: Anhinga Press, 2005

Synopsis

Poetry. LIGHTERED includes poems from five decades. Brock's work ranges from his American South to explorations in world cultures, that together led to probing the roots of the Holocaust. Van K. Brock is a poet to cherish--and read!--for his sense (wisdom) and skill in bringing the secrets of our time to us without spoiling the mystery. These lightered poems give brief strong light to family tragedies, evidence of ancient, too-present crime. [And] there are folktunes here, much music in the words for dancing, fields of sunflowers, washing screaming to be hung "in the sun like saved sinners."--Michael Mott.

About this title

About the Author

Van K. Brock is author of The Hard Essential Landscape, The Window, Unspeakable Strangers, and other collections. He grew up in South Georgia, earned his MA, MFA and PhD at Iowa, and taught creative writing for several decades at Florida State University. He founded Sundog (now the Southeast Review), International Quarterly, and Anhinga Press (more at http://mailer.fsu.edu/~vbrock). He and his wife, Flavia Maria da Silveira Lobo, divide their time between Tucson and Rio de Janeiro.

Review

...Brock knows how to brush just enough strangeness into our speech to make it song and to make it last. -- R T Smith

I’ve followed his work for years. I value this up-to-date definitive collection. -- David Ray

Lightered is a...history book...a book of mythology, a travelogue, a diary, a shoebox filled with...love letters... -- A Magazine of Art and Writing, Spring, 2006

Van K. Brock is a poet to cherish — and read! -- Michael Mott

Edition details

• Publisher: Anhinga Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0938078844
• ISBN 13: 9780938078845
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 92