Taking the Occasion

by Brown, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9781566638012
• ISBN10: 1566638011
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-11
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee

Summary

"From its opening lines, Daniel Brown's Taking the Occasion sounds a new note in poetry. In poem after poem, Mr. Brown plays urban speech rhythms across the back-beat of meter and rhyme. Distinctive in matter as well as in manner, Taking the Occasion addresses topics ranging from baseball to the birth of God. In a time when subjects are viewed by many poets as suspect, Mr. Brown demonstrates the abiding power of an arresting premise. His work repeatedly sounds emotional or philosophical depths yet isn't above eliciting a laugh in the process. If contemporary poetry has lost the large and enthusiastic audience a vital art requires, the pleasure-giving profundity of Taking the Occasion just may help forge a reconnection."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Missing It	p. 3
On Being Asked by Our Receptionist If I Liked the Flowers	p. 4
The Greeks	p. 5
Conundrum	p. 6
Something Like That	p. 7
An Aspect of Having Her	p. 9
My Own Traces	p. 10
As Seen at the Uffizi	p. 12
Dream after Dream	p. 13
Where I Was	p. 15
In the Chapel in My Head	p. 17
At Ease	p. 18
A Window of an Instant	p. 19
On the Audience's Standing for the Hallelujah Chorus	p. 20
The Pass	p. 21
Taking the Occasion	p. 23
Epiphany	p. 24
Facing It	p. 26
Among the Better Blessings	p. 29
Though Angelless	p. 30
I'm Better Now	p. 31
A Job for Ockham's Razor	p. 32
Since He Asked	p. 34
Beshadowed	p. 35
The Way It Is	p. 36
Water Lilies	p. 37
Gossamer	p. 39
Saint Catherine	p. 40
Epitaph for Deconstruction	p. 41
A Cockfight Dance	p. 42
A Salmon Speaks of the Sea	p. 44
"Why Do I Exist?"	p. 46
The Birth of God	p. 47
Prayer	p. 49
Love Story	p. 50
So Large	p. 56
Deliverance	p. 57
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