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    The Human Half
    The Human Half
    The Human Half
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    The Human Half

    By Deborah Brown

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    Threaded with echoes of familial trauma—a sister’s battle with cancer, a brother’s struggles with depression—the lyric poems in The Human Half reveal an open-hearted speaker who finds solace in the beauties of celestial navigation, the flowers along the railroad tracks, and the brushwork of Vermeer and Van Gogh. Filled with quirks of perception, Deborah Brown holds space for wonder amidst of life’s seasons of longing.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBOA Editions Ltd.
    Release dateMay 7, 2019
    ISBN9781942683810
    The Human Half
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    Deborah Brown

    Deborah Brown is the author of the Paradise Florida Keys Mystery series. She enjoys making listeners and readers laugh, cry, and cheer. She lives in South Florida.

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      The Human Half - Deborah Brown

      THE

      HUMAN

      HALF

      THE

      HUMAN

      HALF

      POEMS

      DEBORAH BROWN

      AMERICAN POETS CONTINUUM SERIES, No. 173

      BOA EDITIONS, LTD.     ROCHESTER, NY     2019

      Copyright © 2019 by Deborah Brown

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America First Edition

      First Edition

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      For information about permission to reuse any material from this book, please contact The Permissions Company at www.permissionscompany.com or e-mail permdude@gmail.com.

      Publications by BOA Editions, Ltd.—a not-for-profit corporation under section 501 (c) (3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code—are made possible with funds from a variety of sources, including public funds from the Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; and the County of Monroe, NY. Private funding sources include the Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation; the Mary S. Mulligan Charitable Trust; the Rochester Area Community Foundation; the Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust in memory of Henry Ames, Semon Amzalak, and Dan Amzalak; and contributions from many individuals nationwide. See Colophon on page 80 for special individual acknowledgments.

      Cover Design: Daphne Morrissey

      Cover Art: Salmon Falls by Anne Dubois

      Interior Design and Composition: Richard Foerster

      BOA Logo: Mirko

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Brown, Deborah, 1948– author.

      Title: The human half : poems / Deborah Brown.

      Description: First edition. | Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., [2019] | Series: American poets continuum series ; no. 173

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018050059 (print) | LCCN 2018055222 (ebook) | ISBN 9781942683834 (ebook) | ISBN 9781942683827 (paperback : alk. paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: American poetry—21st century.

      Classification: LCC PS3602.R6944 (ebook) | LCC PS3602.R6944 A6 2019 (print) | DDC 811/.6—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018050059

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      We are all refugees from time as long as we can keep talking.

      The point is to keep gathering these bits and scraps.

      —Richard Jackson

      Contents

      I

      Voices

      Write About This

      The Human Half

      Landscapes

      Matisse’s Vase Says

      Memory Box

      Switching Hands

      Passion Flower

      Not at Rest

      In Black and White and Red

      A Woman Holds a Balance in Jan Vermeer’s Painting

      Ocular

      Midden

      To Birdsong and the Owlfly

      II

      The Unpainted House

      What I Know About the Night Sky

      Ghost Prattle

      The Red Suit

      A

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