Description
Book SynopsisA Brief History of Time, Beers’ first collection of poetry, is at once an exploration of what it is to grow up in rural America and a treatise for social justice. These poems, many of them award-winning, span a wide range of styles – from plainsong free verse to sestinas to nearly epic works.
The characters/speakers in Beers’ poems range from the rural working class to mythological characters. These poems look at the world with an honest, unflinching eye. She is one of the up-and-coming poets from Generation X we will be hearing a great deal from in the future.
Table of Contents
- A Brief History of Time
- Would you know me
- First Love
- Elegy for a Past Life
- Red Heifer
- Stretching out that fifteen minutes
- Triptych – The Light, The End, The Light
- A Man Walks Into a Bar
- Why Gold-digging Fails
- "HA?!"
- The Thermophobic's Wife
- Sleep
- Sleeping Man and Woman, Circa 2000, C.E.
- For Stephen Funk, in Prison for Protesting the Iraq War
- Sunday Worship
- Fitriani in front of her house . . .
- Last Train from the City
- Summer 2000 Sestina
- Rebuttal Evidence
- A Letter to Aya Ishibashi
- Why It Almost Never Ends with Stripping
- To CKC, Stillborn, April 22, 2006
- Overview of the Carbon Cycle
- Rewind
- A Study in Weights and Measures
- Surgery
- Body Shop
- What Will We Do With You? This Bone Has Almost No Flesh Protecting It –
- Wind Advisory
- In a Top Drawer
- Cicadas
- My Love, A Partial Explanation
- Flashback
- Taking Back the Bra Drawer
- Mother
- Moonlight Sestina
- Branching
- The Calypso Diaries
- Belonging
- Outdoor Cafe, Lake Mary, FL
- Omens
- Return
- Weekend Rain Ghazal
- I Give You Words
- Because You Are In It
- Tonight in this hotel room's mirrored wall . . .
- How Time Betrays Us
