The Brass Girl Brouhaha

The Brass Girl Brouhaha

Winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award for a first book of poetry. In wild, zany, often hilarious language, this poet writes about what it's like to be a woman, a mother, a wife, an ex-wife and a poet in 21st century America. Linda Gregerson has commented that Blevins writes “the freshest poetic line that America has produced in 30 years.” "Poetry lovers, this is the dirty, trash-talking, highly edirifed real thang." -- Tony Hoagland "To put it bluntly-which is the way this poet happens to put everything...just one helluva good read." -- Roanoke Times, October 14,2003 Blevins speaks a certain truth about life's brutality and beauty...that becomes a universal story which must be told. -- The Cafe' Review These are poems that shine and hum, that dazzle and crow. -- Newpages.com "To put it bluntly-which is the way this poet happens to put everything...just one helluva good read." "Poetry lovers, this is the dirty, trash-talking, highly edirifed real thang." Adrian Blevins was born in Abdingdon, VA in 1964, and holds graduate degrees from Hollins University and Warren Wilson College's MFA Program for Writers. A 2002 recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers' Foundation award for poetry and the author of The Man Who Went Out for Cigarettes, a Bright Hill Press award-winning chapbook, Blevins lives in Roanoke, VA with her husband and three children, and teaches at Roanoke College. She will begin teaching at Colby College in Maine in the fall of 2004. Used Book in Good Condition