Books by Fleda Brown

A keenly observant collection of poems on disaster, aging, and apocalypse.Golda Meir once said, Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, theres nothing you can do. The poems in Fleda Browns brave collection, her thirteenth, take readers on a journey through the fury of this storm. There are plenty of tragedies to weather here, both personal and universal: the death of a father, a childs terminal cancer, the extinction of bees, and environmental degradation.Browns poems are wise, honest, and deeply observant meditations on contemporary science, physics, family, politics, and aging. With tributes to visionary artists, including Frida Kahlo, Pablo Picasso, and Grandma Moses, as well as to lifes terrors, sadnesses, and joys, these works are beautiful dispatches from a renowned poet who sees the shadows lengthening and imagines what they might look like from the other side.

Offer a deeply human and intensely felt poetic explorations of Fleda Brown's life and world. Her account includes her brain-damaged brother, a rickety family cottage, a puzzling and sometimes frightening father, a timid mother, and the adult life that follows with its loves, divorces, and serious illnesses.

This is an unconventional memoir. A series of lyrical essays about life in a maddeningly complex family during the even more maddeningly complex fifties and sixties, it adds up to one woman's story while simultaneously reflecting the story of her times.