Lee Ann Brown is a poet and filmmaker. She founded Tender Buttons press in 1989, a press dedicated to publishing experimental women's poetry, with the publication of Bernadette Mayer's Sonnets. Ten years later, in April 1999, her own first full-length collection, Polyverse, appeared in Sun & Moon Press. She has just finished another manuscript called The Sleep That Changed Everything.
Working Notes
These poems represent a range of compositional strategies, spanning between being caught in the Steele Eye of a song, to overhearing (antennas tweaked), and simply transcribing what 'others' say around the her, who is me. She, who is hunter gatherer, who does hunt and peck then a hug around your neck. Basically, I pay attention to my scribble and stay up late putting it all together. I sing more now when I remember how good it feels. I wish people would sing together more, even poems of their own devising. Expecially the scribbled ones in fragment not to throw away.
Ballad
fragment
(o death)
loved one's
loved ones
we laughed
goodbye
generous
all we can do is
hold them
like I held
wanted to be
do not desert
us life not yet
we have to hold the other
on to us the living
let go
Campion Cento
Author of light
Break now my heart
Our pleasure sleeps
This place I remember