The West is a Golden Paradise
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (634 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003IT79XG |
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| Number of Pages | : | 479 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He lives in Olympia, Washington with his wife and an indolent beagle. An NEA Fellow in both Poetry (1997) and Fiction (2010), he has published with the Notre Dame Review, Wisconsin Review, Indiana Review, Texas Review, Southampton Review, and the University of Iowa Press anthologies American Diaspora and Like Thunder. Upon graduating from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Sean taught writing at the University of Iowa, the University of Southern Mississippi and Washington State University. About the Author Sean Brendan-Brown, a medically-retired Marine, has authored two poetry chapbooks (No Stopping Anytime; King Of Wounds) and the fiction collection Monarch Of Hatred.
He lives in Olympia, Washington with his wife and an indolent beagle. An NEA Fellow in both Poetry (1997) and Fiction (2010), he has published with the Notre Dame Review, Wisconsin Review, Indiana Review, Texas Review, Southampton Review, and the University of Iowa Press anthologies American Diaspora and Like Thunder. Sean Brendan-Brown, a medically-retired Marine, has authored two poetry chapbooks (No Stopping Anytime; King Of Wounds) and the fiction coll
"High-proof shot of sense" according to Jack Lewis. This book was around the house for a few weeks before I picked it up randomly and started leafing through. What I found between the covers stunned me. Brendan-Brown is somehow able to subvert the stereotypes of living male in the paleo-culture beyond the coastline of the Western U.S. into subtle moral parables. He's superficially a scenarist of the stark and scorched who at closer reading reveals the furious, frantic layering of cultural details throughout our accelerating era.Do not overread, as these poems are complex canapes and rich desserts. Take one
Over there'sthat old mountain, Three-Cornered Hat,and like its museum-piece namesake, declaredoutdated and in need of clear-cutting and festooning with Lindal cedar tri-levels;yeah, that's the ticket, progress is incontinentand every stain stinking of sameness,why just the other day I was gutting a rainbowat Fox Bend and ordered to go, go, go--I wastrespassing. I said "this is the Umatilla National Forest and I have a fishing licenseand trout stamp." The rent-a-cop said "go tohell, this land belongs to Computek now" andI said "so who jacked off the BLM to arrangethat?" but he was a big guy and I was tootired to try anything, and what's the pointanymore, anyway? We're both l