Why Dogs Stopped Flying: Poems

Authors

Kenneth W. Brewer

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Abstract

The solid rightness of image after image in Ken Brewer's poetry was never better than in Why Dogs Stopped Flying. His familiar style is plain-spoken, his humor reliable and self-ironic. Yet, in this collection perhaps more than in his earlier work, the particularity of the poet's insight into the physical world--and the warmth of his affection for it--combine to create an unexpected transcendence. Beasts and bodies are transformed in his lines, and our dim, unremarkable lives on this shadowed earth become somehow more luminous--small suns opening in the dark, small words to the moon.

Document Type

Book

Publisher

Utah State University Press

Publication Date

2006

ISBN

978-0-87421-645-1

City

Logan

Comments

Available as ebook or hard copy from USU Press.

Recommended Citation

Brewer, Kenneth W., "Why Dogs Stopped Flying: Poems" (2006). All USU Press Publications. 22.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/22