![]() The devastating last line, spoken by the girl’s father, “Come on, we have a funeral to get to” puts us on notice that this is not an idyllic tale of childhood.Ī few poems later in “On Being a Golden Retriever,” we hear the story of the girl’s tenth birthday party, and the bizarre and cruel encounter with her father’s “new girlfriend,” Brown sets the pace with the very first poem, “Ace Fencing Company,” in which a young girl is looking through a chain link fence: The collection proceeds mostly in chronological order. Using direct, evocative language, she traces the journey of a young girl’s world turned upside-down, through a bewildering childhood and adolescence, and into a tentative adulthood she’s not sure how to inhabit. ![]() ![]() Robert Lowell said, “Yet why not say what happened?” That’s what Luci Brown does in this heartbreaking, yet luminous debut chapbook of poems. ![]()
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