Molly McCully Brown. Persea, $15.95 trade paper (80p) ISBN 978-0-89255-478-2
The spirit of the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, one of many American eugenics facilities constructed in the early 20th century, looms over Brown’s harrowing debut, winner of the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry.
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Molly McCully Brown. Persea, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-89255-513-0
Poet Brown (The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded) explores living with cerebral palsy in her fine prose debut. Brown contrasts the limitations that readers might expect her condition, classed by the medical establishment as a “mo
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Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison. Persea, $15.95 trade paper (72p) ISBN 978-0-89255-514-7
In this ethereal series of epistolary poems, two disabled poets build their own language of imagery and landscape where trees ask the question the speakers relentlessly examine: “what would you weather just to call yourself alive?” In Brown and...
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