Why Dogs Stopped Flying: Poems
The solid rightness of image after image in Ken Brewer's poetry was never better than in Why Dogs Stopped Flying. His familiar style is plain-spoken, his humor reliable and self-ironic. Yet, in this collection perhaps more than in his earlier work, the particularity of the poet's insight into the ph...
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| description | The solid rightness of image after image in Ken Brewer's poetry was never better than in Why Dogs Stopped Flying. His familiar style is plain-spoken, his humor reliable and self-ironic. Yet, in this collection perhaps more than in his earlier work, the particularity of the poet's insight into the physical world--and the warmth of his affection for it--combine to create an unexpected transcendence. Beasts and bodies are transformed in his lines, and our dim, unremarkable lives on this shadowed earth become somehow more luminous--small suns opening in the dark, small words to the moon. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-626772022-01-31T19:30:34Z Why Dogs Stopped Flying: Poems Brewer, Ken W. PS1-3576 The solid rightness of image after image in Ken Brewer's poetry was never better than in Why Dogs Stopped Flying. His familiar style is plain-spoken, his humor reliable and self-ironic. Yet, in this collection perhaps more than in his earlier work, the particularity of the poet's insight into the physical world--and the warmth of his affection for it--combine to create an unexpected transcendence. Beasts and bodies are transformed in his lines, and our dim, unremarkable lives on this shadowed earth become somehow more luminous--small suns opening in the dark, small words to the moon. 2021-02-12T08:35:12Z 2021-02-12T08:35:12Z 2012-04-25 21:46:50 2006 book 14685 9780874216451 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/62677 image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://www.usu.edu/usupress/books/index.cfm?isbn=6451 http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/22 Utah State University, University Libraries 5d56e4cb-85f2-4b72-8236-acd7ad544a3e 9780874216451 open access |
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