Mortality, with Friends is a collection of lyrical essays from Fleda Brown , a writer and caretaker, of her father and sometimes her husband, who lives with the nagging uneasiness that her cancer could return.
She is professor emerita at the University of Delaware and was poet laureate of Delaware from 2001 to 2007..
Earlier poems can be found in The Woods Are on Fire: New & Selected Poems , chosen by Ted Kooser for the University of Nebraska poetry series.
About author(s): Fleda Brown \'s tenth collection of poems, Flying through a Hole in the Storm , won the Hollis Summers Prize from Ohio University Press.
Readers with a fondness for memoir and appreciation for art will be dazzled by the beauty of this collection.
Comparable to Lia Purpura\'s essays in their density and poetics, Brown\'s intent is to look closely, to stay with the moment and the image.
Ramsay, she remembers the ghosts of her family and the strident image of herself, positioned in front of her Northern Michigan cottage.
In 2019: Becoming Mrs.
In Mortality, with Friends , Brown dives into the practical and stupefying response to her own cancer and survival.
In Fingernails, Toenails, she marvels at the attention and suffering that accompanies caring for our aging bodies.
In Native Bees, Brown expertly weaves together the threads of a difficult family tradition intended to incite happiness with the harsh reality of current events.
In Donna, Brown examines a childhood friendship and questions the roles we need to play in each other\'s lives to shape who we might become.
Containing twenty-two essays, Mortality, with Friends follows the cascade of loss with the author\'s imminent joy in opening a path to track her own growing awareness and wisdom.
Memoir in feel, the book muses on the nature of art, of sculpture, of the loss of bees and trees, the end of marriages, and among other things, the loss of hearing and of life itself.
Mortality, with Friends is a collection of lyrical essays from Fleda Brown , a writer and caretaker, of her father and sometimes her husband, who lives with the nagging uneasiness that her cancer could return
