Summary
These poems are at once tender, vulnerable, biting, heartbreaking, and hilarious. One moment you are laughing, the next moment drying your eyes. Edward Hirsch, judge of the Four Way Books 2002 Intro Prize says of Buddha's Dogs, "There's a ruthless authenticity--a deep cherishing--in Buddha's Dogs, a splendidly mature first book of poems that is filled with moments of Proustian recall, with the comedy and the anguish, the beauty and the burning of lived experience."
Author Biography
SUSAN BROWNE was born in Long Beach, California. She was educated at California State University, Chico, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including River City, The Mississippi Review, Gargoyle, and Alaska Quarterly Review. She won the Four Way Books Intro Prize selected by Edward Hirsch and has received awards from the Chester H. Jones Foundation, the National Writer's Union, and the Los Angeles Poetry Festival. She teaches literature and writing at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California, and lives with her husband in Oakland.
Table of Contents
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3 | (2) |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (2) |
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The Boy Who Hated Emily Dickinson |
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On Learning Rats Nest in Trees |
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17 | (2) |
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19 | (1) |
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After Breaking Up with My Twenty-Seventh Boyfriend |
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Ode to High School, 1966-1970 |
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28 | (2) |
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Small Pleasures, Great Sweetness |
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Swearing, Smoking, Drinking |
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Paradelle for Kerry, Who Survived the Car Accident |
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44 | (1) |
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45 | (1) |
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Full Moon, Cabo San Lucas |
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At Mountain View Cemetery |
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