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Books by Kurt Brown
  | | Lost Sheep Aspen's Counterculture in the 1970s--A Memoir by Kurt Brown Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 2012 by Conundrum Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9713678-7-6, ISBN: 0-9713678-7-6 "Lost Sheep recounts the author's journey from the "real" world of 1970s America to the rollicking, freedom-loving, outlaw world of Aspen. Blending personal narrative, local history, dramatic interlude, and cultural analysis, the story begins as a literal journey but quickly evolves into the memoir of an entire town-a time and place many consider to be Aspen's "Golden Age," when artists, eccentrics, and outlaws took over the city and tra ..." |
 | | Killer Verse(Updated) Poems of Murder and Mayhem (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) by Harold Schechter, Kurt Brown, Simon Armitage, Gregory Djanikian, Rigoberto Gonzalez Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2011 by Everyman's Library ISBN-13: 978-0-307-70093-3, ISBN: 0-307-70093-3 ""Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem "is a spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadly art of murder. The villains and victims who populate these pages range from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard and his wives to Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Mafia hit men. The literary forms they inhabit are just as varied, from the colorful melodramas of old Scottish ballads to the hard-boiled poetry of twentieth-cent ..." |
 | | I've Come This Far to Say Hello(1st Edition) Poems Selected and New by Kurt Brown Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2014 by Tiger Bark Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9860445-1-9, ISBN: 0-9860445-1-2 "Poetry. This new volume of Kurt Brown's poems collects the best of his many past books, and the best of the new poems, as well as his most prevalent themes, and the "wonderment" that he was always anxious to share with his readers. I'VE COME THIS FAR TO SAY HELLO is the achievement that will send Brown to that place where he was always heading: among the best poets of recent years, whose work continues to surprise and even astonish." |
 | | Writing It Down for James(1st Edition) Writers on Life and Craft (Writers on Life & Craft) by Kurt Brown Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1995 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-6349-1, ISBN: 0-8070-6349-5 "Sixteen lectures, among the best delivered to small passionate audiences at the many writers' conferences held each year, are now for the first time available to a broader audience.In Writing It Down for James, the second in the Writers on Life and Craft series, Pattiann Rogers uses science as a jumping-off point for spirituality; Stephen Corey finds imperfect translation to be a rich language of its own when it occurs in his infant dau ..." |
 | | No Other Paradise(1st Edition) (Paperback) by Kurt Brown Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2010 by Red Hen Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59709-488-7, ISBN: 1-59709-488-9 ""'I am going to keep death from entering this poem, ' Kurt Brown writes in No Other Paradise." |
 | | Conversation Pieces Poems That Talk to Other Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) by Kurt Brown, Harold Schechter, Billy Collins Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2007 by Everyman's Library ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26545-6, ISBN: 0-307-26545-5 "This utterly delightful anthology gathers poetic responses to other poems in a dialogue conducted across space and time. Here are poems that answer, argue with, update, elaborate on, mock, interrogate, or pay tribute to poems of the past. We hear Leda's view of the Swan; feel sympathy for La Belle Dame sans Merci, and find out how Marvell's coy mistress might have answered his appeal. Raleigh's famous reply to Marlowe's "The Passiona ..." |
 | | The Measured Word(Updated) On Poetry and Science by Kurt Brown, Albert Goldbarth, Kelly Cherry, Jonathan Holden, Stephanie Strickland, Alice Fulton, Daniel Tobin, Alison Deming, Pattiann Rogers, Forrest Gander, Paul Lake, Miroslav Holub, Emily Grosholz, M. L. Williams, Professor Emily Grosholz Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2287-2, ISBN: 0-8203-2287-3 "Though the interests of science and art frequently seem to inhabit opposite poles, "The Measured Word" assembles a brilliant anthology of twelve essays that illumine the historic--and newly emerging--relationships between the poetic and scientific imaginations. Assembling the writings of leading contemporary poets, essayists, and thinkers, Kurt Brown highlights ways in which poets use scientific discoveries and mathematical ideas to the ..." |
 | | Night Out(1st Edition) Poems About Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Bars by Kurt Brown, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Gerald Stern, Milkweed Editions Paperback, 362 Pages, Published 1997 by Milkweed Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-405-5, ISBN: 1-57131-405-9 "About the Editors Kurt Brown is the founder of the Aspen Writers' Conference and Writers' Conferences and Festivals (a national association of directors), past editor of Aspen Anthology, and past president of the Aspen Literary Foundation. His poems have appeared in many periodicals, including the Ontario Review, the Berkeley Poetry Review, the Seattle Review, the Southern Poetry Review, the Massachusetts Review, and the Indiana Re ..." |
 | | Drive, They Said(1st Edition) Poems about Americans and Their Cars by Kurt Brown, Edward Hirsch, Kin David Cooper, Milkweed Editions Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 1994 by Milkweed Editions ISBN-13: 978-0-915943-90-6, ISBN: 0-915943-90-5 "What icon better defines America's experiences, dreams, foibles, escapes, and obsessions than the automobile? And what experience more perfectly captures the American spirit - moving on, westering, wandering - than driving? In this anthology, editor Kurt Brown collects the best of the innumerable poems that have made driving their emblem during the century known as the Automobile Age.Poems from nearly one hundred contemporary writers ar ..." |
 | | The Blind Man’s Elephant Essays on the Craft of Poetry by Kurt Brown Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2019 by Conundrum Press ISBN-13: 978-1-942280-54-5, ISBN: 1-942280-54-8 "The Blind Mans Elephant is a collection of essays and reviews written during the many years author and poet Kurt Brown taught craft classes. It is for writers who want to hone their craft and for readers with an interest in understanding how poetry works at a deeper level. The uniqueness of this book lies in its broadening the idea of craft it takes a more wide-ranging approach to the subject than most, including historical context and ..." |
 | | Return of the Prodigals(1st Edition) by Kurt Brown Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 1999 by Four Way ISBN-13: 978-1-884800-22-1, ISBN: 1-884800-22-X "Poetry. "Few poets love the world. It exists as a source of their complaint. But Kurt Brown is a true celebrator of earthly experience. He loves the world in all its vast peculiarity and he loves it with a clear eye. His poems exist to bear witness to this love and rarely has the world come across so well. In both thought and language, Brow is as precise as a surgeon. He is a master of free verse line and he has line breaks that will br ..." |
 | | Facing the Lion(1st Edition) Writers on Life and Craft by Kurt Brown Paperback, 181 Pages, Published 1996 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-6209-8, ISBN: 0-8070-6209-X "Kurt Brown. There is another "negative way" in poetry as well — the actual use of the negative, as we glimpsed earlier in Milosz's "Gift." I have begun to look at how often such explicit negative constructions appear in poems I love, how often they occur at a poem's turning point, freeing the poet to move a stage deeper into ... He lived from roughly 342 to 420, and was not only made a saint but also given the rarer title of "docto ..." |
 | | Verse & Universe(1st Edition) Poems About Science and Mathematics by Kurt Brown, Milkweed Editions Paperback, 335 Pages, Published 1998 by Milkweed Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-407-9, ISBN: 1-57131-407-5 "Brick and mortar bookstore, minor shelf wear may be present. SF" |
 | | The True Subject(1st Edition) Writers on Life and Craft by Jane Smiley, Kurt Brown Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 1993 by Graywolf Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-181-6, ISBN: 1-55597-181-4 "To answer this question, I polled two of my colleagues at Iowa State, Joe Geha, whose collection Through and Through was published in 1990 by Graywolf Press , and Steve Pett, whose novel, Sirens, appeared in 1990 from Vintage." |
 | | Time-Bound(1st Edition) Poems by Kurt Brown Paperback, 74 Pages, Published 2012 by Tiger Bark Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9816752-7-5, ISBN: 0-9816752-7-1 "In TIME-BOUND, Kurt Brown engages with the world he inhabits, questioning it, taking nothing for granted, prizing a broad and deep knowledge of it, both past and present, local and cosmic. The condition indicated by the book's title is one the poet does not accept resignedly but challenges by means of his art; confronting history's long amnesia, he would reclaim much of what has been lost--people, events, places, whole epochs--and servi ..." |
 | | Future Ship by Kurt Brown Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2008 by Red Hen Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59709-072-8, ISBN: 1-59709-072-7 "The poems in Future Ship are largely autobiographical in the sense that they are based on personal experiences from childhood and adolescence when the personality is still in a molten form and being shaped by events and experiences that ..." |
 | | Smudge Newberry, Clare Turlay by Kurt Brown Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2004 by Wordtech Communications ISBN-13: 978-1-932339-17-8, ISBN: 1-932339-17-5 |
 | | More Things in Heaven and Earth(1st Edition) by Kurt Brown Paperback, 76 Pages, Published 2002 by Four Way ISBN-13: 978-1-884800-34-4, ISBN: 1-884800-34-3 "Kurt Brown muses acerbically on nostaligia for a prior pop culture, as well as on the new fixations of aging Americans: gods have names like Metamucil, Zantac, / Rogaine, Viagra, and Perhaps it's our irrepressible American spirit, / the soul of P.T. Barnum invading our chests: heart attacks as huge as the Rockies or the heads / at Mount Rushmore. This book is also gently infused with outlandish parables: Is it the ocean / or the little ..." |
 | | The Measured Word On Poetry and Science (Hardback) by Kurt Brown, Introduction-Albert Goldbarth Hardcover, 209 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2286-5, ISBN: 0-8203-2286-5 "So, poets should go to astronomy lectures, interrogate the scientific worldview, study fractal geometry and chaos theory, or even analyze garbage, as A. R. Ammons does so masterfully in Garbage. What better for our poetry than to have a scientist ... a truer beauty in the periodic table of the elements? Many poets writing today — Ammons, Christopher Buckley, Albert Goldbarth, and Pattiann Rogers, to name a few of the finest — could ..." |
 | | Beginning Lua Programming(1st Edition) by Kurt Jung, Aaron Brown, Brown Jung Paperback, 672 Pages, Published 2007 by Wrox ISBN-13: 978-0-470-06917-2, ISBN: 0-470-06917-1 |
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