Growing Old in Poetry [Paperback]

Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USJAX-NONESydney Lea and Fleda Brown, past poets laureate of their respective?states and both nationally recognized writers whove given their lives?to their art, have conspired to write an unusual book of essays.?Theyve picked a wide variety of topics and headed out as they wished?with each, covering a lot of territory, both artistic and memoiristic.?Some of the pieces, like Wild?Animals, are downright silly; some,?like Sex,?Music, and Food, are provocative; some, like Clothes,?Sports, and Houses, appear ordinary but are ultimately revealing.?The final essay offers, from each, a personal look at how a poet lives?and writes in this troubling time. The excitement of this collection is?in the detailshow lives are lived and poems written over time, and at?last, an entire body of work as witness.

Sydney Lea was Poet Laureate of Vermont (201115). His twelfth?collection of poems,?No Doubt the Nameless,?was published in?2016 by Four Way Books. His fourth collection of lyrical essays,?Whats the Story? Short Takes on a Life Grown Long,?appeared?in 2015 from Green Writers Press. A former Pulitzer finalist?and a winner of the peer-reviewed Poets Prize, Lea founded?and for thirteen years edited New England Review. Before his?retirement, he had taught at Dartmouth, Yale, Middlebury,?Franklin College (Switzerland), E?tv?s Lor?nd University?(Budapest), and elsewhere. His work has appeared in The New?Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times,?Sports Illustrated, and all the major US literary journals. He?has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Fulbright, and?Rockefeller FoundatiolC,