Poems on the early life and development of a child, and how parents themselves are altered throughout these stages
F. DOUGLAS BROWN is an English teacher at Loyola High School of Los Angeles.
These poems lead us from the birth cry in a hospital delivery room,
to dusk and revelry in Spain, to modern-day Florida and
history-laden Mississippi where Trayvon Martin and Emmett Till were
slain. Even when
what Brown has set out to do is grieve loss, his lines move with a
buoyant, marrow-deep music, percussive and rich. They move like ‘a
train, bound to a destination’ and they arrive with ‘the crackle
lightning makes when it hits.'
*author of Life on Mars, winner of 2012 Pulitzer Prize for
Poetry*
F. Douglas Brown writes on behalf of the families we make and the
families that make us. Poets like Robert Hayden and Elizabeth
Bishop join lovers and kin in shaping his magnanimous craftsmanship
and compassion. The late poet Stanley Kunitz once said he wrote
about his life in order to amplify it. Likewise, this engrossing
debut makes our world more vivid, transformative, and transcendent.
Zero to Three is simply a triumph.
*National Book Award Winner, Lighthead*
From the hectic blur of family dynamics amidst raising young
children, F. Douglas Brown’s Zero to Three reminds us there is much
to learn about what shapes parents into better people.
*The Rumpus*
These are those rare poems that actually make you feel grateful to
be a human and to have been given the privilege to love (and
sometimes loathe) oneself and others in the most complicated of
ways.
*Poetry Northwest*
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