The Brass Girl Brouhaha

by Adrian Blevins

Overview

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.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781931337106
Publisher:	Copper Canyon Press
Publication date:	09/01/2003
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Adrian Blevins was born in Abdingdon, VA in 1964, and holds graduate degrees from Hollins Universityand 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.

Table of Contents

	Life History
	Life History	1
	Life and Art	4
	The Famous Men Who Made Me	6
	Of Cliches and Superstitions	10
	The Interrogative Sentence	13
	Women's Lib	16
	Our Lady of Perpetual Bad Luck	18
	Generally Speaking	20
	The Other Cold War
	The Other Cold War	25
	Failing the Republic	27
	The Magnificence of Rain	29
	Girl, Eighth Grade, Two or Three Copies of The Autobiography of Malcolm X Lying Around the House	31
	Defects of the Adolescent	33
	Mid-Divorce Weather Report	35
	Turning Thirty-Six	37
	Spy Story	39
	Hansel on the Highroad	41
	The Last Lap of the Daytona 500
	Unusual Summer Weather	45
	Xanthe, The Master Gardner, Dies at 50 of an Unhappy Marriage	47
	Story of the Wisconsin Blizzard	49
	The Last Lap of the Daytona 500	52
	Billy Joel Gets Philosophical on Bravo	54
	Kings of the Trampoline	58
	He Says, She Says	61
	November Neurosis	63
	Ritual and Rhetoric of the North American Baby Shower
	Ritual and Rhetoric of the North American Baby Shower	69
	Childbirth	74
	Still Life with Peeved Madonna	76
	The X Games	77
	My Happiness	79
	Etude for the Birth Year	81
	April Song for August	82
	Nap Time	83
	Channel 58
	Democracy and its Discontents	87
	The End of Beauty	90
	For My Students	92
	Baptism	94
	Channel 58	96
	Case Against April	101
	Invective	104
	Waking Up	106
	Notes & Acknowledgments	111