A LITTLE GRIEF BREAK: The Collected Poems

A Little Grief Break is a thirty-year retrospective from one of contemporary poetry's most electrifying voices—a collection that refuses to sit still. Derrick C. Brown has spent three decades honing a singular poetic style that marries devastating emotional precision with sharp humor, bar-stool philosophy with literary craft, and the raw immediacy of performance with the carefully wrought architecture of the page. This 300-page collection gathers the essential poems from Brown's ten previou...