Product Overview
From Follett
After Don Welch -- Notes on Tomorrow -- Gunmetal -- Light Switch -- What I Heard -- On the Farm -- Smudges -- Threading Carpet -- Building Brownville -- As from the Mystery -- To Nebraska -- Notes on Yesterday -- In the Shower -- She has Gotten Really Good at Hiding the Fact That She Smokes Cigarettes -- Routine's Mornings -- Woman Embroidering -- Harvest -- Nebraska Is Full of Barren Trees -- Poking Holes in Butter Dish Lids -- Building Brownville -- Mise en Place -- White Lilies -- Standing Water in Central Nebraska -- Duplex -- Toadstool -- Jars of Fresh Air -- What You Heard -- Sedimentary -- Elegy -- Maple -- In 1999, I Sit at the Kitchen Table and Watch My Father Open Mail Before I Go to Live with My Mother -- Lebanon, Nebraska -- A Portrait of My Mother -- Like Prayer -- Something to Get Lost In -- How to Sand and Varnish Floorboards -- June 21: Poem for Kearney -- Catch -- Building Brownville.
From the Publisher
Building Brownville explores forms of grief through the internalization of experience and wanders further to wonder if the past is too far away to fix the present while also serving as a love letter to Nebraska. This collection offers a millennial voice within poetry--a voice that not only subverts the norm of what poetry is but defies the stereotypes of a region, offering connection through grief, love, and place--to experience a somewhere which we have never been.