Poets and Poems: Mary Brown and "Call It Mist"

To read Call It Mist; Poems by Mary E. Brown is to enter a world where words – razor-sharp words – reign supreme. Brown moves through landscapes, relationships, and ideas with a subtle precision and focus. There’s no ambiguity here; Brown’s poems suggest life is short, so let’s get right to the point. 

I’m not sure why these poems kept reminding me of surgeons working in an operating room. Perhaps the careful, anything-but-subtle language made me think of a scalpel.

To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.

Some Thursday Readings

 

The Poetry of Thomas Hardy: An Essay – Adam Sedia at The Society of Classical Poets.

 

The Act of Leaving – poem by David Whyte.

 

A Shopshire Lad, XL, poem by A.E. Housman – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

You Are – 4 poems by Andrew Calis at Rabbit Room Poetry.