Joyce Compton Brown

Flowers of the Heavens (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Flowers of the Heavens by Joyce Compton Brown explores the South and its history through the lens of her family. These poems recognize within this history the holiness of life and the nobility of the human spirit, while remaining conscious of the necessity of breaking up the South's old and stubborn mores. The collection is an elegy to the past, an appreciation of present moments, and an acceptance of the finite in the flowing of time which carries us through Earth's cycles and our own. Brown documents a life lived through awareness of those moments of wonder, large and small, a life lived in both sorrow and in joy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Madville Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781963695380
• Artikelnr.: 72355706

Autorenporträt

Joyce Compton Brown was born into an agrarian German/Scots-Irish farm family in Iredell County, North Carolina. Appalachian State University confirmed her love for the mountains and Appalachian music, where she took classes in the Child Ballads and other subjects under the founder of the Appalachian Studies Association, Cratis Williams, and acquired her first banjo. Between bouts of paper grading at Gardner-Webb University, she welcomed chances to learn at Berea College and Hindman Settlement School writing workshops. Her early writing focuses on her Southern family roots and stories she heard as a child. Later writing, though based in specificity, strives for a sense of universality. She is the author of four previous books of poetry, most recently Hard-Packet Clay.