| A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood Contributor(s): Braden, Allen (Author) |
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ISBN: 082033474X ISBN-13: 9780820334745 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $18.86 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 741.597 |
| LCCN: 2009024823 |
| Series: VQR Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.25 lbs) 60 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Raised on a family farm in the Pacific Northwest, Allen Braden has deep connections to rural life. Even at its most lyrical, his language evokes the local dialect of the West, his West. These poems, balancing elegy and affirmation, measure human and animal relationships with "brute geometry" in order to calculate the damage we require of ourselves. Returning to variations of a sonnet titled "Taboo against the Word Beauty," Braden relentlessly pursues the possibility of naming the beautiful without ignoring what has so often and so widely been destroyed by human hands. |
Contributor Bio(s): Braden, Allen: - ALLEN BRADEN is the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a residency from the Poetry Center and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His poems have appeared in such publications as the Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Witness.Genoways, Ted: - TED GENOWAYS is the author of five books, including This Blessed Earth and The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food. His honors include a James Beard Foundation Award, a National Press Club Award, an Association of Food Journalists Award, and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. He is a contributing editor at Mother Jones, the New Republic, and Pacific Standard. For nine years, he was editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives outside Lincoln, Nebraska, with the photographer Mary Anne Andrei and their teenage son. |