F. Brown - THE WOMEN WHO LOVED ELVIS ALL THEIR LIVES - Paperback

Fleda Brown, MFA Author "What a remarkable collection! Fleda Brown has turned obsession into a series of finely wrought evocations of a period. She knows her music, and she knows that her early stirrings in relation to it were emblematic of a nation's. There's consistently high quality of phrasing in this book, and an astute framing of effects. Which is to say Fleda Brown has been able to raise popular culture into art like few others before her." - Stephen Dunn "'You think the fat women who cried didn’t know / what they cried for, when he died?' asks Fleda Brown in this spirit-lamp of a book that filters our 'irreconcilable urges' through an iconography that renews, once again, America’s promise. As much about the mysteries of the creative process, its 'private language,' and the rigors of self-discipline as about Elvis himself, The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives accomplishes something original, perfect in its moment, that triggers, as if by accident, an 'astonished whoop.' If