num_pages: 42
description: Poetry. "Here's to Lieutenant (eventually General) Henry Shrapnel,/ inventor in 1784 of a shell designed to burst/ above the enemy's head and so return to earth/ not in the traditional singular plop but a swarm/ of hissing steel bits, each with force enough to pierce/ flesh simply as drillbit twisting through butter." Joel Brouwer's tales-in-verse span the centuries and continents with nonchalant ease, rendering the unfamiliar into the familiar and vice "You can smoke once you're dead. And there are chairs./ The Dead Zone is bounded by orange traffic cones./ A teenage St. Peter with a walkie-talkie/ checks your weapon when you enter" ("Steve's Commando Paintball, San Adriano, California"). Brouwer Teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he held the 1994-95 Hall Fellowship in Poetry.
language: English
title: This Just in
titlecomplete: This Just in (This Just In, Vol. 21)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: CanvasLot