Description In this book full of pain and joy and raw honesty, Fleda Brown, poet and former poet laureate of Delaware, gives us a real-time account of her Cancer diagnosis, chemo and radiation, from the doctor\'s phone call to the one-year, all-clear pronouncement.
She\'s gathered a large selection of those poems for her new book, due out in 2017, called The Woods Are On Fire: New. -Linda Gregerson About the Author Fleda Brown has published nine previous collections of poems.
Except for the radiance, which only art, and a generous mind, can make. we\'re tempted to think it\'s not art at all. . . - Linda Pastan So perfectly tempered are the apprehensions of metaphor, so cunning are the felicities of form. . . -Elizabeth Dodd, Miramar Fleda Brown has such a wide ranging intelligence, such a large and quirky variety of subjects, and such facility with language. -Dave Smith Brown turns her considerable intelligence to examine art\'s persistence and contingency. -Sydney Lea Fleda Brown has a good wit, a sharp eye, and a tough character. an observant woman with a grand heart, a penetrating mind, and not least, a keen wit. . . . -World Literature Today Brown\'s details are] so invariably eloquent.
Reading a poem by Brown is a lesson in how to read one\'s life, how each small thing, each seemingly casual detail, is in fact connected to perceptions and understandings of profound significance that we can all divine if only we calm our vision enough to fully experience the perishing present.
With great generosity, she allows the reader to come along through the darkness and the light.
Brown\'s week to week accounts lead to the realization that one needs to face a wall-sometimes the wall of possible death-to see clearly.
It\'s exciting, sometimes frightening.
Eventually we\'ll fall one way or the other, but for the moment, we\'re upright.
But being alive is more like riding a bicycle, balancing on two thin tires.
We pretend there\'s some solidity, some predictability.
Now everything\'s shifted.
Description In this book full of pain and joy and raw honesty, Fleda Brown, poet and former poet laureate of Delaware, gives us a real-time account of her Cancer diagnosis, chemo and radiation, from the doctor\'s phone call to the one-year, all-clear pronouncement
