I'm Your Huckleberry

By Erika Jo Brown

Poems of desire, romantic poems, poems written for a beloved other-they are often overlooked in contemporary literature, arriving from a genre once heralded as a necessary thematic excursion for any poet worthy of the title, though having since been, through ubiquity, relegated to a lower tier, as if appetites and passions were finally outed as pass , the banal concerns of a different era. Yet here is Erika Jo Brown's incredible debut, inhabiting the same unsafe places explored by Catullus, Bishop, Millay, Stevens, O'Hara-not light verse, but whimsical and mysterious, quixotic, fearful, ecstatic. This is what love breeds, what it encapsulates but cannot seem to hold: an uncertainty that makes living worth it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936767325
• ISBN13: 9781936767328
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Brooklyn Arts Press LLC
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.3"