University of Wisconsin Press, 2012 Paper: 978-0-299-28624-8 | eISBN: 978-0-299-28623-1 Library of Congress Classification PS3602.R444H45 2012 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Help Is On the Way takes readers from the subways of New York City to the savannas of Paleolithic Africa to the transplant ward of Kyoto University Hospital. But whatever their setting, these poems are enlivened by the subtle music, penetrating wit, and remarkable emotional honesty that won high praise for John Brehm’s earlier collection, Sea of Faith, and constitute his singularly engaging voice.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
John Brehm’s poems have appeared in Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, Gulf Coast, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner, the Missouri Review, and many other journals and anthologies. He is author of Sea of Faith, winner of the 2004 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, and associate editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry. He lived in New York City for many years and now resides in Portland, Oregon.
REVIEWS
“Brehm’s poems are sexy, funny, often brilliantly crafted, and wonderfully sweet at their core.”—David Daniel, Ploughshares
“Reading John Brehm, it is difficult not to be charmed by his voice and glittering wit. . . . Brehm is the poet-friend you’ve always wanted. . . . a plain-speaking raconteur—delightfully hyperbolic, ironic, and comically self-deprecating.”—Mike Wilmot, Prairie Schooner
“These poems are ecstatic songs, human tunes, being sung in a tone of honesty that makes you want to sing yourself.”—Tin House
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
I. Over and Under
Pompeii
Prophecies: Right Here, Right Now
Critical Mass
Valid Photo Identification Required
First and Last
Of Love and Life Insurance: An Argument
Talk of the Town
Getting Where We're Going
Change in Service
Dear Internal Revenue Service
Fourth of July
Newborn, Brovetto Farm
A New Addiction Please
One Way or Another
Wind Over Water
Revelation
Passage
So Long
Conflagration
Full Circle
On the Subway Platform
Over and Under
II. Still Falling
Lineage
III. Side by Side
To Make the Wound More Beautiful
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University of Wisconsin Press, 2012 Paper: 978-0-299-28624-8 eISBN: 978-0-299-28623-1
Help Is On the Way takes readers from the subways of New York City to the savannas of Paleolithic Africa to the transplant ward of Kyoto University Hospital. But whatever their setting, these poems are enlivened by the subtle music, penetrating wit, and remarkable emotional honesty that won high praise for John Brehm’s earlier collection, Sea of Faith, and constitute his singularly engaging voice.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
John Brehm’s poems have appeared in Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, Gulf Coast, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner, the Missouri Review, and many other journals and anthologies. He is author of Sea of Faith, winner of the 2004 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, and associate editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry. He lived in New York City for many years and now resides in Portland, Oregon.
REVIEWS
“Brehm’s poems are sexy, funny, often brilliantly crafted, and wonderfully sweet at their core.”—David Daniel, Ploughshares
“Reading John Brehm, it is difficult not to be charmed by his voice and glittering wit. . . . Brehm is the poet-friend you’ve always wanted. . . . a plain-speaking raconteur—delightfully hyperbolic, ironic, and comically self-deprecating.”—Mike Wilmot, Prairie Schooner
“These poems are ecstatic songs, human tunes, being sung in a tone of honesty that makes you want to sing yourself.”—Tin House
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
I. Over and Under
Pompeii
Prophecies: Right Here, Right Now
Critical Mass
Valid Photo Identification Required
First and Last
Of Love and Life Insurance: An Argument
Talk of the Town
Getting Where We're Going
Change in Service
Dear Internal Revenue Service
Fourth of July
Newborn, Brovetto Farm
A New Addiction Please
One Way or Another
Wind Over Water
Revelation
Passage
So Long
Conflagration
Full Circle
On the Subway Platform
Over and Under
II. Still Falling
Lineage
III. Side by Side
To Make the Wound More Beautiful
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with an electronic file for alternative access.
Please have the accessibility coordinator at your school fill out this form.
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ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE