Downhome Americana has never sounded off as lyrical-or as brutal or tormented-as in the countless beating wings and throats of Brown's ecstatic testaments to our sad humanity. Her work has appeared in The Hunger, American Literary Review, Confrontation, Eclipse, Masque and Spectacle and Miracle Monocle (among others). In equal measure, anguish and outrage, unsilenced, refuse to be anything but mouthy and here now in this strange and all-too familiar world where women give birth to bees, earth swells, and heat is heat. Rebbecca Brown is author of the novel They Become Her (What Books Press) and the lyrical prose collection Mouth Trap (Arc Pair Press). /rebates/2fp2fMouth-Trap2fRebbecca-Brown2f9781733971904&.com252fp252fMouth-Trap252fRebbecca-Brown252f978173397190426afsrc3d126SID3d&idbooksamillion&nameBOOKSAMILLION.

And so, poet Rebbecca Brown sets out to smash them to pieces, all the dark unsaids rising up from soil and field, root and vine, barn and cell, blood and booze and loveless boys and girls to haunt our reading and contaminate our dreams.

It tells the story of Delia Bacon, the first to propose that Shakespeare did not write his own works and whose own literary ambition inspired a life filled with fame and scandal. 'I don't know what to call these, and neither will you-protest poems or tiny prose laments? But as a speaker in one of them says, it's not actions that are taboo, but the breaking of silences that surround them. Rebbecca Browns debut novel, THEY BECOME HER, received Honorable Mention in the 2009-2010 Starcherone Innovative Fiction contest. Speakers experience the biological as ephemeral, all the while bewildered by the promise of transformation. Buy directly from Arc Pair Press Gabriel Welsch is the author of four poetry collections, the most recent being The Four Horsepersons of a Disappointing Apocalypse (Steel Toe Books, 2013). Through the creation of portraits and landscapes, Brown fashions an exhibit of dynamic lyricism and word play. Acute observations are captured with music and tangled in emotion. Rebbecca Brown's prose poetry collection renders birds, beasts, and surroundings from the lens of an artist who structures form with feeling. Description 'This book is full of terribly glorious clamor.' Vanessa Baish, Entropy Magazine

Mouth Trap by Rebbecca Brown