Scrap Bones: Poems (Volume 4) (The Sabine Series in Literature) - Softcover

Brown, Collier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1680033093 ISBN 13: 9781680033090

Publisher: TRP: The University Press of SHSU, 2023

Synopsis

Collier Brown’s Scrap Bones reads like a post-pandemic epilogue to T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land.” No angels or flying horses here, just panic disorders, email fatigue, and the spiritual dead end of a 23-and-Me test kit. And yet, resilient are the muses in this collection—the bees, the starlings, the dragonflies—skimming over the wastes.

The Sabine Series in Literature

...

from “Orion, Break”
they’re sleeping in their homes,
they’re waking from their beds,
they’re at their desks
and on a call. They’re unimpressed.
That’s not your fault.
Nor your concern. I’m tired
of images, of lines and dots and codes.
When I step into the dark,
I only want the novas
and the nowheres in between,
and if I’m very lucky—
if I’ve beaten all the odds—
just one, naïve fluoresce
of the insect who
is its own hello/goodbye.

About this title

About the Author

COLLIER BROWN is the author of Eye, Thus Far, Unplucked (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2017), To the Wheatlight of June (21st Editions, 2013), and Moth and Bonelight (21st Editions, 2010). His essays on photography have appeared in over twenty books, and he is the founding editor of Od Review (www.odreview.com). Brown teaches at Harvard University.

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from “Orion, Break”
        
they’re sleeping in their homes,
they’re waking from their beds,
they’re at their desks
and on a call. They’re unimpressed.
That’s not your fault.
Nor your concern. I’m tired
of images, of lines and dots and codes.
When I step into the dark,
I only want the novas
and the nowheres in between,
and if I’m very lucky—
if I’ve beaten all the odds—
just one, naïve fluoresce
of the insect who
is its own hello/goodbye.
 

Edition details

• Publisher: TRP: The University Press of SHSU
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1680033093
• ISBN 13: 9781680033090
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 95