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Gaylord Brewer
The most recent of Gaylord Brewer's eighteen books of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, criticism, and cookery is the essay collection Before the Storm Takes It Away (Red Hen, 2024). His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry and The Bedford Introduction to Literature. His many international residencies include Hawthornden Castle (Scotland) and the Global Arts Village (India), and he has taught in Russia, Kenya, England, and the Czech Republic. Brewer was awarded a Tennessee Arts Commission Fellowship in 2009. He is a native of Louisville, Kentucky, earned a Ph.D. from Ohio State University, and has been a professor at Middle Tennessee State University for more than three decades.
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Goodbye, Baby
Gaylord Brewer
Goodbye, Baby, the author's first book of poetry in six years, is arguably his most personal—a taut and elegiac sequence of grief and loss, but also of lambent memory, of gratitude, of joy, delivered with lightning strikes of Brewer's wry humor amidst his signature brand of darkness.
"Goodbye, Baby is an elemental book, a collection of poems that distills chaotic experience down to its most essential ingredients: food, drink, blood, wit, travel, song, love for animals, especially a good dog named Lucy. This is a volume of twelves, of completed circles, of the faces of clocks, an American sort of twelve-line ghazal emerging, each poem an egg contained perfectly within its shell. You will never forget this loved dog and the words she brought forth from one of our finest poets."—Jesse Graves
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JBH Book Award Winner Announced
Judge Toni Ann Johnson has chosen Honeysuckle Season by Willie Davis as the winner of the James Baker Hall Book Award for a Short Story Collection.
Finalists for the award are:
- Re-Member by Kasimma
- The Language of Birds by Geraldine Ann Marshall
- Out of Order by Michelle Ruby
Read more here.
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