Brain camp
By: Charles Harper Webb
Series: Pitt poetry series; Pitt poetry series
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press (Bibliovault)
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9780822980476; 9781336203143; 9780822963387
Subjects: American poetry; FICTION; General; POETRY; American
Description: Powered by a fierce, compassionate intelligence, Brain Camp explores with clarity and vividness a wide spectrum of emotions--love to hate, tenderness to brutality--all from a perspective both universal yet distinctly Webb's. Metaphors of startling aptness and originality, a voice at once endearing and provocative, high musicality, propulsive energy, wild imaginative leaps, as well as a mastery of diction from lyricism to street-speak, create a reading experience of the first order. These poems go down easy, but pack a wallop. As Robert Frost said poetry should do, Brain Camp "begins in delight and ends in wisdom."
Notes: English.
Table of contents: title: Dedication; Part I; Moth; Winter Song; Thanks Again; Explanations; Respect; American Dream; Postmodernism Missed the Opry; Someone Else's Life; Dairy Farm; Things We Know; Why Are People So Mean?; Use of Force; Breathalyzer; In the Face, Hard; How Can I Exceed Your Expectations?; Suitcase; Hospital; Brain Camp; Part II; Watermelon; Made in Heaven; Praying Mantis on a Chain-Link Fence; Friar Towhee; Strangers; Questionable; He Bangs; Woe to the Defeated; The Sad Case of History; After the 5-K Walk to Beat Breast Cancer; The Cat's Meow; My Son Dreams That a Shark Ate Me; Fishsuit.; title: Sheep Tickle MeChrysanthemums; Webb Could Say Less, May Be?; Nada; Part III; Invisible Alpaca; Elixir; Plumbed Wine; Thirst; Chelonian Rhapsody; Introspection after Fear Factor; Haunted; Watch for Dwarfs, ; Beauty Mark; The Wish to Jump in a Car and Just Drive; The Best Part of the Day; At 5 a.m., the Only Sounds; Thank You, Carol White; Stowaway; Celeste; Approaching Poetry; That Thing; To Raise My Ghost; The Good Survives; Acknowledgments.