Smoke from the Fires

by Michael Dennis Browne

Overview

A collection of poetry by Michael Dennis Browne.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887480072
Publisher:	Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1985
Series:	Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. His previous books are The Wife of Winter and The Sun Fetcher and his awards include a National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowship, a Bush Fellowship and Borestone Prize. With the composer Stephen Paulus he has collaborated on numerous works, among them song cycles, choral pieces, carols, songs for children, and a one-act opera. He lives in Minneapolis and the north woods with his wife Lisa and their son Peter.

Table of Contents

Hide and Go Seek • Lamb • To My Brother Peter on the Birth of His First Child • At Forty • Mrs Mum in the New World Dream at the Death of James Wright • Little Women • Thinking of Trees, January • Fuchsia • Tortoise Shell, Mojave Desert • Warrior With Shield • China, September • Five Hundred and Eight Buddhas • For the Chinese Poet Zheng Min • March Morning • Neighbor on May • Seven Songs for Children Thinking I Heard a Cry Among the Trees • Leaves are My Flowers Now • At Avoca • Smoke from the Fires • Poem • Cutting Up a Fallen Tree • All My Pretty Ones Hiding from the Bride • Arrogance • Her Garden • To My Wife in Time of War