Taking the Occasion

Name: Taking the Occasion
Brand: Ivan R Dee, Inc
SKU: 9781566638012
Price: 3600 KES
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ISBN: 9781566638012

by Daniel Brown

Book Details

Format Hardback

Book Series New Criterion Series

ISBN-10 1566638011

ISBN-13 9781566638012

Publisher Ivan R Dee, Inc

Imprint Ivan R Dee, Inc

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 11th, 2008

Print length 80 Pages

Weight 227 grams

Dimensions 22.50 x 15.30 x 1.80 cms

Product Classification: Poetry / poems by individual poets Poetry by individual poets

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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.

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