A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood: Poems

by Allen Braden

Book Overview

Raised on a family farm in the Pacific Northwest, Allen Braden has deep connections to rural life. Even at its most lyrical, his language evokes the local dialect of the West, his West. These poems, balancing elegy and affirmation, measure human and animal relationships with "brute geometry" in order to calculate the damage we require of ourselves.

Returning to variations of a sonnet titled "Taboo against the Word Beauty," Braden relentlessly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082033474X
• ISBN13: 9780820334745
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.3"