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poetry John Brehm John Brehm is the author of Sea of Faith, which won the 2004 Brittingham Prize from The University of Wisconsin Press, and of a chapbook, The Way Water Moves, from Flume Press. His poems have appeared in Poetry, the Southern Review, the Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, Boulevard and many other journals. A freelance writer and the associate editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry, he lives in Brooklyn, New York. Brehm says, "I've been fascinated for a long time with the moment when our evolutionary ancestors came down from the trees and stood upright on the open and lion-filled savannas of Africa, a moment which one might read as a Fall from Grace, in which human emotions as we experience them today began to take shape. My reading in human evolution, as well as my interest in Milarepa, Chang-Tzu, the Buddha, cave-paintings and contemporary lion-and tiger-related deaths (Roy Horn of "Siegfried and Roy"; hundreds yearly in India) all form part of the soil from which "Lineage" grew. SUMMER 2006 / ThE MiSSoURi REviEw 77 I When we fell down from the trees, that's when we learned to feel and feel afraid on the lioncharmed
The Missouri Review – University of Missouri
Published: Sep 11, 2006
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