Read by the author, the News of Need audiobook (80 minutes, MP3) captures more than 40 portraits of people and places that have been left out, looked over, or worked to the bone, but not without the hope of revelation or redemption. This writing has the eye of a reporter, the touch of a painter, and the heart of a storyteller. Brown writes in direct everyday language meant to connect with all readers. This is Brown’s second collection.
Excerpt:
Detroit Commute
Remember us
driving east in the morning
west in the evening
into the sun
visors drawn down
casting violet shadows
across orange mouths slack
open on orbs of hunger
called along the highway
to what eyes cannot see.
Steve Brown was born in Flint, Michigan, and studied art in Detroit and Germany where his essay collection Glänze, Gespenst! was published in 2015. His writing has appeared in Witness, Black Warrior Review, Diagram, Dummy Magazine, Public Art Dialogue, and elsewhere. He has worked as a busboy, cook, roofer, carpenter, landscaper, driver, salesman, librarian, substitute teacher, grant writer, commercial artist, and non-profit director. He is also a visual artist and performer. This is his second collection of poetry. He lives in Michigan and Ohio.
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Read by the author, the News of Need audiobook (80 minutes, MP3) captures more than 40 portraits of people and places that have been left out, looked over, or worked to the bone, but not without the hope of revelation or redemption. This writing has the eye of a reporter, the touch of a painter, and the heart of a storyteller. Brown writes in direct everyday language meant to connect with all readers. This is Brown’s second collection.
Excerpt:
Detroit Commute
Remember us
driving east in the morning
west in the evening
into the sun
visors drawn down
casting violet shadows
across orange mouths slack
open on orbs of hunger
called along the highway
to what eyes cannot see.
Steve Brown was born in Flint, Michigan, and studied art in Detroit and Germany where his essay collection Glänze, Gespenst! was published in 2015. His writing has appeared in Witness, Black Warrior Review, Diagram, Dummy Magazine, Public Art Dialogue, and elsewhere. He has worked as a busboy, cook, roofer, carpenter, landscaper, driver, salesman, librarian, substitute teacher, grant writer, commercial artist, and non-profit director. He is also a visual artist and performer. This is his second collection of poetry. He lives in Michigan and Ohio.
Note: Customers will receive a secure download link by email lasting 24 hours.
