A Little Grief Break by Derrick C. Brown

The new book is coming! Pre-order now. Launches Nov 21. available at: Buy on Amazon Buy on Barnes & Noble Buy on Bookshop.org A Little Grief Break is a tasty, thirty-year retrospective from one of contemporary poetry's most electrifying voices—a collection that refuses to sit still. Derrick C. Brown has spent three decades honing a singular poetic style that marries devastating emotional precision with sharp humor, bar-stool philosophy with literary craft, and the raw immediacy of performance with the carefully wrought architecture of the page. This almost 300-page collection gathers the essential poems from Brown's ten previous books alongside nineteen new works in Night Collapser, creating a portrait of a poet who has never stopped taking risks. Here are poems that detonate with laughter before breaking your heart in the next breath. Poems about love that acknowledge love's absurdity without diminishing its power. Elegies that refuse easy comfort. Celebrations that don't i