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Sea
of Faith Winner of the 2004 Brittingham Prize
in Poetry "The poems in Sea of Faith present us with a vivid dramatic voice, one determined to engage with a world that often seems intangible and remote, and to resist a world that seems all too real and disappointing. The speaker here is both self-mocking and self-accepting, taking his concerns seriously but always distant enough from them to regard them as a small part of a larger human story, a story we recognize at once to be our own."—Carl Dennis, Brittingham Prize judge and author of Practical Gods "Fun, wisdom, tasty language. Sea of Faith has real subways in it as well as real rivers, mountains and dogs, scoops of heartbreak, sightings of beauty. Yes, sad or happy, the poems are alive. Sea of Faith was a complete pleasure for me to read." —Alicia Ostriker, author of The Crack in Everything In a masterful blending of lyric and narrative, Sea of Faith ranges across interior states and external worlds. From the Sierra Nevadas to New York City subways, from an imagined friendship with Lao Tzu to a meditation on Coney Island, from a comic and poignant classroom discussion of "Dover Beach" to a sexual fantasy spawned by a tedious poetry reading, John Brehm's poems explore the human predicament with tenderness, compassion, and unforgettable humor. "John Brehm writes on a knife edge. His voice would be ironic if it weren't for the sustained emotion, the opening to the unknown, the 'electric calm.' These elegant poems wear their eloquence lightly; the stakes are high. Sea of Faith is an unforgettable book." —D. Nurkse, author of The Fall
For publicity information contact our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu Some poems from Sea of Faith: I wear my heart on my sleeve, Sometimes when I join my hands like a plate that fell and cracked LAYABOUT Do nothing and everything will be done, now his books practically grow on trees rush up to him like waves lapping But if I could just unclench my fists, we could be brothers, him the older one in our hammocks, our hats tipped |
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John Brehm
has published poems in Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, The
Southern Review, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner, and The
Best American Poetry, 1999. He is author of the chapbook
The Way Water Moves, published by Flume Press, and is
associate editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry,
forthcoming. He lives in Brooklyn and works as a freelance writer.
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