A Little Grief Break: The Collected Poems

By Derrick C. Brown

A Little Grief Break is a thirty-year retrospective from one of contemporary poetry's most electrifying voices--a collection that refuses to sit still. Derrick C. Brown has spent three decades honing a singular poetic style that marries devastating emotional precision with sharp humor, bar-stool philosophy with literary craft, and the raw immediacy of performance with the carefully wrought architecture of the page. This 300-page collection gathers the essential poems from Brown's ten previous books alongside nineteen new works in Night Collapser, creating a portrait of a poet who has never stopped taking risks. Here are poems that detonate with laughter before breaking your heart in the next breath.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949342883
• ISBN13: 9781949342888
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"