Top 40Brandon Brown Like the wavering foliage which inspired William Wordsworth's autobiographical epic, "America's Top 40 Countdown" is the catchy Beatrice of Brandon Brown's new book. Writing through the Top 40 pop songs on the chart of September 14, 2013, Brown's poems track the life of a song as it resounds through an organism. An organism who bathes, reads, writes, likes, fights, loves, hates, and fucks seems human; the soundtrack never stops.

klimaattobber en kunstliefhebber werden samengekneed tot één wezen dat haar hoop

In startlingly original poems

Set in a shifting narrative environment

the horseman on the night's street

they also identify resonances between poems and across Beckett's work as a whole

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and scholars from Mexico

Astrid Lampe ging op reis en ze nam mee: een mummieslaapzak

ogenschijnlijk succesvolle millennial

Reflecting the new American sensibilities of the 1960's as well as timeless poetic themes

Readers will thoroughly treasure this expansive poet of the quotidian

though with a dark undertone of Polish-German history