from PASSAGER BOOKS
A Little Breast Music
Poems by Shirley J. Brewer
the first in a series of chapbooks: Six Over Sixty, by fiction writers, poets and memoirists whose work has appeared in Passager
Cover price: $9.00
Soft Cover, 52 pages
"Shirley J. Brewer's poems are so alert to the reverberant specifics of life, so alive with sensory energy, that I lose myself (a benefit!) in the lost worlds they evoke. A Little Breast Music sings!" -Thomas Lux
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The editors are delighted to present A Little Breast Music by Shirley J. Brewer, the first in a series of chapbooks: Six over Sixty, by fiction writers, poets and memoirists whose work has appeared in Passager. These limited-edition chapbooks will be available individually and as a set.
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"Shirley J. Brewer shows that the elegiac and comedic can be companions, and in fact can help register the variety of feelings associated with loss. She's an artful blender of tones, and her language is imaginative and often full of a spunky verve, as in this conclusion to "How to Kill Time":
Gouge the eye of midnight, mangle those miserable hands that murdered summer.
How dare they govern the way we lose light, the lovely length of evening."
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After a thirty-year career as a speech therapist, Shirley earned her M.A. in creative writing and started her own business, Poetic License (www.apoeticlicense.com), in which she creates original, personalized verses for all occasions. She also writes poetry for businesses. Shirley has developed Plorkshops, which help people embellish their life journeys and learn how to open up to more creative paths.
Shirley lives and accessorizes in the Charles Village community of Baltimore. Her definition of shame is a bare wrist.
"I can't imagine my life without poems. I think it was through writing poetry I really got to know myself. I just kept diving deeper, a goddess-mermaid plumbing her own depths, finding meaning . . . I love the spirit of plork . . . play + work. Concentrate on becoming immersed in what you are doing, full engagement, let the work guide you. Oh yes . . . poetry and plorking go together like sequins and glitter . . ." -Shirley J. Brewer
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