Powered by a fierce, compassionate intelligence, Brain Camp explores with clarity and vividness a wide spectrum of emotions—love to hate, tenderness to brutality—all from a perspective both universal yet distinctly Webb's. Metaphors of startling aptness and originality, a voice at once endearing and provocative, high musicality, propulsive energy, wild imaginative leaps, as well as a mastery of diction from lyricism to street-speak, create a reading experience of the first order. These poems go down easy, but pack a wallop. As Robert Frost said poetry should do, Brain Camp "begins in delight and ends in wisdom.".
ISBN: | 9780822963387 |
Publication date: | 23rd March 2015 |
Author: | Charles Harper Webb |
Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 102 pages |
Series: | Pitt Poetry Series |
Genres: |
Poetry |