Brain Camp

Powered by a fierce, compassionate intelligence, Brain Camp explores with clarity and vividness a wide spectrum of emotions--love to hate, tenderness to brutality--all from a perspective both universal yet distinctly Webb's. Metaphors of startling aptness and originality, a voice at once endearing and provocative, high musicality, propulsive energy, wild imaginative leaps, as well as a mastery of diction from lyricism to street-speak, create a reading experience of the first order. These poems go down easy, but pack a wallop. As Robert Frost said poetry should do, Brain Camp "begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

Author: Charles Harper Webb
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 03/23/2015
Pages: 102
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780822963387

About the Author
Charles Harper Webb has published twelve books of poetry, including Brain Camp. Webb's awards in poetry include the Morse Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the Felix Pollock Prize, and the Benjamin Saltman Prize. Webb is Professor of English at California State University, Long Beach, where he teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program.