Taking the Occasion

by Daniel Brown and Daniel Brown

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566638011
• ISBN13: 9781566638012
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.7"