Crowns of Charlotte (The Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series, 15) - Softcover

Brown, Lee Ann

9780932112941: Crowns of Charlotte (The Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series, 15)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0932112943 ISBN 13: 9780932112941

Publisher: Carolina Wren Press, 2013

Lee Ann Brown's ikebana sentences link material and maternal worlds to wreathe and doubly crown portraits of her home town with historical teeth marks. Take this auricular tour by a poet who knows what to do with skin texts we are too tight with. Here's a textural, textual matrix from a mother of invention. --Julie Patton

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About the Author:

LEE ANN BROWN was born in Japan and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is the author of Polyverse, The Sleep That Changed Everything, Bagatelles for Cornell, In the Laurels, Caught and served as judge for the 2012 Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series. Far from the Fields of Ambition, is her book for Black Mountain College from Lorimer Press and Lenoir-Rhyne University. She is the founder of Tender Buttons press, and is Associate Professor of English at St. John s University in New York City. Brown lives in both New York City and Marshall, North Carolina.

Review:

HOW RARE IT IS, AND HOW PRECIOUS, THAT A POET with so many gifts decides to examine the terrain where she was formed. Lee Ann Brown gives us the language we need to tell the stories that are already within us, whose existence we had forgotten until now. --Keith Flynn, Asheville Poetry Review

LEE ANN BROWN'S IKEBANA SENTENCES LINK material and maternal worlds to wreathe and doubly crown portraits of her home town with historical teeth marks. Take this auricular tour by a poet who knows what to do with skin texts we are too tight with. Here's a textural, textual matrix from a mother of invention. --Julie Patton

CROWNS OF CHARLOTTE IS SWEET TEA AND something necessarily stronger, singing, ferocious--Lee Ann Brown's poems open forms and flora to an endless storm front. The reader finds herself (like the poet) a citizen inside, affixed to the generous field. --Elaine Bleakney

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