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Michael H. Brownstein

What Stone Is, 2005

Poems by Michael H. Brownstein
24 pp., 5 1/2" x 8 1/2",
Saddle-stitched paperback
ISBN: 1-933126-07-8

This collection of short poems shows how Brownstein manages to find teh passion, humor, an pathos in everyday life and render them meaningful in accessible but powerful language.

Author Profile

Michael H. Brownstein has been widely published throughout the small and literary presses. His work has appeared in The Cafe Review, Kings River Press, Skidrow Penthouse, Ariel, Oyez Review, River King Poetry, and others. He has been featured in a number of on-line journals, including ChicagoPoetry.com, poetrysuperhighway.com, Milk, and Muse Apprentice Guild.

In addition, he has won a number of awards, including the Ommation Press Best Chapbook Award and Triton College’s International Poetry Prize. He published The Paper Bag and WYMBS Broadside, wrote for the Chicago Reader and other Chicago area newspapers, and has an educational column in the SouthStreet Journal. He has also published six previous chapbooks, including The Shooting Gallery (Samisdat Press), Poems from the Body Bag (Ommation Press), The Principle of Things (Tight Press), and A Period of Trees (Snark Publishing).

Brownstein performs original, one-man performance pieces throughout Chicagoland, including Ten Times People Have Attempted to Rob Me and Let’s Order Grasshoppers Cause Everything Else Tastes Like Chicken.

Brownstein teaches elementary school in Chicago’s inner city, studies authentic African instruments with his students, conducts grant-writing workshops for educators and the State of Illinois Title 1 Convention, and records performance and music pieces with grants from the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs, the Oppenheimer Family Foundation, and others.

Contents - Click Table of Contents to see poem titles

• Table of Contents

• What Stone Is  1

Clothing Marks the Woman    2

A Quarrel, February with Clouds        3

Boundaries      4

A Longing for Flight   5

A Man Comes Free From Prison        6

The Sound of Fear in the Midnight Hour        7

We Name Starved Rock          8

The Difficulties           9

Father  10

Afterlives         11

A Road Traveled         12

Creation Myth 13

Gas Station Attendant 14

The Gourd       15

Barney Fife and Me    16

Highway 54, Around 5am, North of LaDonna           17

Aftermath       18

Ghost Sun       19

Amtrack, A Two-Hour Layover, St. Louis     20

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