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Praise for the poetry of John Brehm:
“Brehm’s poems are sexy, funny, often
brilliantly crafted, and wonderfully sweet at
their core.”
—David Daniel,
Ploughshares
“Reading
it is difficult not to be
charmed by his voice and glittering wit. . . .
Brehm is the poet-friend you’ve always
wanted . . . a plain-speaking raconteur—
delightfully hyperbolic, ironic, and comically
self-deprecating.”
—Mike Wilmot,
Prairie Schooner
March 2012
LC: 2011041957 PS
80 pp. 6 x 9
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Poetry
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
• SPRING 2012 •
Winner of the 2012 Four Lakes Prize in Poetry
Help Is on the Way
takes readers from the subways of New York City to
the savannas of Paleolithic Africa to the transplant ward of Kyoto
University Hospital. But whatever their setting, these poems are
enlivened by the subtle music, penetrating wit, and remarkable
emotional honesty that won high praise for John Brehm’s earlier
collection,
Sea of Faith
, and constitute his singularly engaging voice.
“I need to accept you as you are,” she said,
“so you need to become the kind
of person I can accept.” I was
becoming bewildered, but I don’t
think that’s what she meant.
“Life Insurance,” she said. “You
don’t have any Life Insurance.”
“But we’ve only known each other
three months. Aren’t we jumping ahead?”
“Look,” she said, “I don’t want
to have to take my child and move
back to Chicago and live with my mother.
I don’t want to have to take my child
to a public clinic. And I don’t want to
have to ride you and nag you and ask you . . .
—excerpt from “Of Love and Life Insurance: An Argument”
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poems have
appeared in
Poetry, The Gettysburg
Review, The Southern Review,
Gulf Coast, Barrow Street, Prairie
Schooner, The Missouri Review
, and
many other journals and antholo-
gies. He is author of
Sea of Faith
,
winner of the 2004 Brittingham
Prize in Poetry, and associate editor
of
The Oxford Book of American Poetry
. He lived in New York City for
many years and now resides in Portland, Oregon.
Of related interest
Winner of the 2004 Brittingham Prize in Poetry
“At once playful and serious,
Sea of Faith
remains a collection of singularities, unified by a
voice that, like the rain, we will want to hear again—and yet again.” —Judith Kitchen,
The Georgia Review
Published November 2004
LC: 2004012820 PS 120 pp. 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-299-20204-0 Paper $14.95 t
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