Taking the Occasion, Hardback Book

Taking the Occasion Hardback

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The eighth winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize is Daniel Brown's Taking the Occasion.

From its opening lines, his book sounds a new note in poetry: "The thing about the old one about / The tree in the forest and nobody's around / And how it falls maybe with a sound, / Maybe not . . ." In poem after poem, Mr. Brown plays urban speech rhythms (much as Robert Frost played rural ones) across the back-beat of meter and rhyme.

Distinctive in matter as well as in manner, Taking the Occasion addresses subjects that range from a moment's fancy to stirring ruminations on existence.

In a time when many poets see subjects as superfluous, Brown demonstrates the abiding power of an arresting premise, much as music derives life from a memorable tune.

His work repeatedly sounds emotional or philosophical depths, yet he isn't above eliciting a laugh in the process.

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