New & Selected
Poems by Jenny Browne
TCU Press (Texas Poet Laureate Series), 2020
ISBN: 978-0875657325
96 pages
In her introduction to Jenny Browne’s New and Selected Poems, Naomi Shihab Nye writes, “The poems are switchboards of care extending in so many directions, beamed up to high, but always with the subtlety of idiosyncratic awareness—it’s fascinating to fathom how she gets from one place to another. A startle, a dazzle of impulses enlivening the spirit . . . .” Browne’s poems ask personal questions: How did we get here? Where are we going? Can we walk there together? From love letters to strangers to extended meditations on slow-moving rivers, these poems surprise in their fidelity to the strangeness of being alive. In the new poems included here, this heightened awareness is set against the landscape of a planet undergoing global climate change, quickly becoming inhospitable. Resisting the poles of paralysis and apocalypse, Browne travels through extreme and unfamiliar landscapes, considering the unthinkable, negotiating the past, and ultimately reimagining the future and our human place in it.
Dear Stranger
Poems by Jenny Browne
UT Press, 2013
ISBN-13: 978-159732111-2
71 pages
“In the first poem in Jenny Browne’s terrific, moving, disturbing new book, Dear Stranger, she conjures a blue parakeet “loyal to the sky/inside it’s dented cage” and I know she’s talking about me. And she’s talking about you. Trapped, glorious, heart broken, beautiful, capable of impossible flights, the creatures in this book look just like us. There’s so much heart, so much astringent and generous observation in Browne’s poems that I came away from them feeling X-rayed. Which is a good thing. Jenny Browne’s poems are a very good thing”
“Angel-fisted lyrics”
“I got lost in these poems. I mean that as a compliment. I would read along and find myself traveling a different stream than the poem’s beginning led me to believe I would travel, and I did not mind the surprises. In fact, I relished them”
“This book is wild and beautiful and surprising. In this poet’s hands the seemingly mundane is transformed into the nearly sacred, the elemental reveals its inner mysteries, and scraps of overheard language dissolve into a song. Jenny Browne is a poet of alchemy, and these poems embody wonder”
The Second Reason
Poems by Jenny Browne
UT Press, 2008
ISBN-10: 1597320366
ISBN-13: 978-1597320368
85 pages
“Her poems retain the unpredictability not of a roulette wheel or a supernova, but of a quirky, wise friend in another city, one whose reactions surprise us even once we know her well enough to trust her well”
“These poems are breathtaking, honoring and illuminating everything they consider with deep intelligence and care”
At Once
Poems by Jenny Browne
UT Press, 2003
ISBN-10: 187985287X
ISBN-13: 978-1879852877
112 pages
Poetry chapbook by Jenny Browne
Pecan Grove Press, 2000
ISBN-10: 1877603694
ISBN-13: 978-1877603693
48 pages