100 Years

Along with his songs and prose, author and singer-songwriter Nathan Brown has written at least one poem every day for over 20 years now. And from that practice comes this new collection in which each poem deals chronologically with every year of our lives, from the ages of 0 to 100. In one, he tells the story of an 8-year-old girl attempting to cross the border into the U.S. with her older brother. Further in, he works through the mental gyrations of a 39-year-old man and a woman who is 61 falling in love at a reading in a bookstore. As a whole, these poems offer a stark sensitivity to all the stages, transitions, and graduations of life, while also marking a willingness to put an honest, sometimes even cold and hard, magnifying glass up to the struggles of the soul--the Venus and the Mars in us all.

Author: Nathan Brown
Publisher: Mezcalita Press, LLC
Published: 02/08/2019
Pages: 142
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.33d
ISBN: 9780999478455

About the Author
Brown, Nathan: - Nathan Brown is an author, songwriter, and award-winning poet currently living in Wimberley, Texas. He holds a PhD in English and Journalism from the University of Oklahoma and taught there for over fifteen years. He also served as Poet Laureate for the State of Oklahoma in 2013 and 2014. Nathan has published roughly nineteen books. Among them is Don't Try, a collection of poems co-written with songwriter and Austin Music Hall-of-Famer, Jon Dee Graham. His Oklahoma Poems anthology was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award. Karma Crisis: New and Selected Poems was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and the Oklahoma Book Award. His earlier book, Two Tables Over, won the 2009 Oklahoma Book Award. He has also released several CDs of original music. For more, go to: brownlines.com