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Brief Landing on the Earth's Surface Juanita Brunk The Brittingham Prize in Poetry Ronald Wallace, Series Editor Winner of the 1996 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, selected by Philip Levine In Brief Landing on the Earth's Surface, even the most ordinary moments are infused with an awareness of the lost past and a kind of prescience of the future. From one setting to another—Tidewater Virginia, rural Pennsylvania, Greece, New York City—these poems give voice to the human longing for permanence, home, and connection in the face of a constantly changing reality. "Brunk's poetry has a delicate verbal grace and ease, and even more importantly all the right sort of literary and human ambitions. It is sensitive, attentive to urgent emotional matters, and approaches experience with a rich sense of whimsy, a genuine and idiosyncratic concern."—C. K. Williams Juanita Brunk was born in Newport News, Virginia. She received a B.A. from James Madison University and an M.F.A. from George Mason University. She has taught English as a Second Language and writing classes in Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and New York, and was a poet-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Passages North, Cimarron Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Poet Lore. She lives in New York City with her husband and son. Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)

September 1996 LC: 96-015118 PS 66 pp.    5 1/2 x 8 1/2 The cloth edition ISBN 978-0-299-15200-0 is currently out of print. Paper $14.95 t ISBN 978-0-299-15204-8 ADD TO CART "Brief Landing on the Earth's Surface teems with exact metaphors, moments of almost startling clarity. This is a book about central issues in human life, full of fresh, accurate figures of speech. It's written with grace and passion, and deserves and will reward readers." —William Matthews

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