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Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USJAX-NONE Sydney Lea and Fleda Brown, past poets laureate of their respectivestates and both nationally recognized writers who've given their livesto their art, have conspired to write an unusual book of essays.They've picked a wide variety of topics and headed out as they wishedwith each, covering a lot of territory, both artistic and memoiristic.Some of the pieces, like ""WildAnimals,"" are downright silly; some,like ""Sex,""""Music,"" and ""Food,"" are provocative; some, like ""Clothes,""""Sports,"" and ""Houses,"" appear ordinary but are ultimately revealing.The final essay offers, from each, a personal look at how a poet livesand writes in this troubling time. The excitement of this collection isin the details-how lives are lived and poems written over time, and atlast, an entire body of work as witness.

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Sydney Lea was Poet Laureate of Vermont (201115). His twelfthcollection of poems,""No Doubt the Nameless,""was published in2016 by Four Way Books. His fourth collection of lyrical essays,""What's the Story? Short Takes on a Life Grown Long,""appearedin 2015 from Green Writers Press. A former Pulitzer finalistand a winner of the peer-reviewed Poets' Prize, Lea foundedand for thirteen years edited New England Review. Before hisretirement, he had taught at Dartmouth, Yale, Middlebury,Franklin College (Switzerland), Etvs Lornd University(Budapest), and elsewhere. His work has appeared in The NewYorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times,Sports Illustrated, and all the major US literary journals. Hehas received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Fulbright, andRockefeller Foundations. His thirteenth book of poems,""Here,""will appear in 2018. He and his successor as Vermont state poetChard deNiord have recently published""Roads Taken,""ananthology of contemporary Vermont poetry.

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