Taking the Occasion (New Criterion)

by Daniel James Brown

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The eighth winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize is Daniel Brown's Taking the Occasion. From its opening lines, his book sounds a new note in poetry: "The thing about the old one about / The tree in the forest and nobody's around / And how it falls maybe with a sound, / Maybe not . . ." In poem after poem, Mr. Brown plays urban speech rhythms (much as Robert Frost played rural ones) across the back-beat of meter and rhyme. Distinctive in matter as well as in manner, Taking the Occasion addresses subjects that range from a...Read more
  • ISBN10 1566638011
  • ISBN13 9781566638012
  • Publish Date 11 September 2008
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Ivan R Dee, Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 80
  • Language English