Requiem for Used Ignition Cap (The Orison Poetry Prize), by J. Scott Brownlee
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Winner of the 2016 Bob Bush Memorial Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. Winner of the 2015 Orison Poetry Prize. Finalist for the 2015 National Poetry Series. Named One of the Best Poetry Books of Winter 2016 by Foreword Reviews. . . . Set in the drought-plagued landscape of Central Texas, Requiem for UsedIgnition Cap is a collection of lyric poems that chronicle life in andaround Llano, Texas (population 3,033). Catfish heads hang onclotheslines waiting for the ensuing apocalypse. Blue heelers call outfrom drainage ditches, searching for friendly hands to lick. Hell-firepreachers lament the drowning of a young Pentecostal boy caught in theriver's floodgate. Brownlee's poems meditate on the inescapability ofplace. When they give an inch, they do so to take a yard--all the while earnestly making a case for the rural condition's place in contemporary American poetry. Praise for the collection: Devotion, whether in poetry or prayer, requires one to pay attention.From the very first poem of this collection to the last, J. ScottBrownlee does exactly that. Whether it is the landscapes of Texas,soldiers home from Iraq, or the awkward ways in which we relate to eachother, these poems pay close attention to details and transform theminto something organic, whole, and incredibly moving. -C. DALE YOUNG,judge of the 2015 Orison Poetry PrizeJ. Scott Brownlee's Requiem for Used Ignition Cap pulses with imagery that grounds and levitates mind and body,crisscrossing some risky borderlands, but always in a zone of quotidianintegrity. This collection, honed and shaped, is woven from ordinarylives and dreams, and each trope honors the earth we walk upon. There's a feeling in this collection--voices and rituals that spark the landscape. Brownlee juxtaposes mind and spirit, and there's nowhere these poemsdon't dare to go.-YUSEF KOMUNYAKAAThe violence of men, the delicacy of their broken bodies, thereligiosity of the town that raised them: all of these influence Requiem for Used Ignition Cap, which documents an America we rarely see. In J.Scott Brownlee's Llano, high school football heroes become PTS-affectedwar vets. The rural dead sing from the hollow flutes their bones leavein the dust. These are poems whose language begins with the body and the land. For Brownlee, the two are inseparable.-DORIANNE LAUX In his debut collection, J. Scott Brownlee writes a stunning ode to hisrural Texas hometown and its fathers, brothers, and ghosts. Llano is aplace where meth addicts score, wildflowers burn, hunters drink in their blinds, slain deer talk, soldiers return from duty with loaded guns,and the Wal-Mart sign glows brighter than Friday night's lights. Informs that barely contain their explosive contents, Brownlee's poemsrelate and interrogate what's expected of young White men growing up inthe rural South. In doing so, they resist the erasure and nostalgia ofsome Southern literature and instead lay bare the benefits and violenttrappings of small-town Christianity and masculinity. These poems are at once song, accusation, self-implication, and prayer--full of the musicof a place from which Brownlee is forever removed but from which he will always hail.-SUSAN B.A. SOMERS-WILLETT
Requiem for Used Ignition Cap (The Orison Poetry Prize), by J. Scott Brownlee - Amazon Sales Rank: #1848626 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-21
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 9.21" h x .23" w x 6.14" l, .35 pounds
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Requiem for Used Ignition Cap (The Orison Poetry Prize), by J. Scott Brownlee Review "This Texas writer moved to New York and brought some Texas dirt with him. This is a big-hearted, uncomplaining book--sometimes biblical in its utterances; it brings to mind the definition of poetry, "breaking the frozen sea," and Brownlee dives in, too, and writes of the undercurrent. There's an expedition in each poem, sometimes rousing, never giving in, creating powerful heart bonds. Can a poet be revelatory without being overwhelmed by suffering? Brownlee can--and he's good at it." -Washington Independent Review of BooksOne of the Best Poetry Books of Winter 2016. . . . -Foreword Reviews"Requiem for Used Ignition Cap balances the metaphysical influence of natural landscapes with the concrete struggles of urban existence as Brownlee explores the ideological framework emerging from his native Llano, Texas. Violent devotion to the physical world often strips down the expectations of small-town Southern spirituality, so that the lyric embellishes another grander world far removed from Brownlee’s roots, and yet still returns to the haunting narrative voice of his Southern home." -Front Porch Journal"One of the best poetry collections of 2015." -The Raleigh ReviewEvery poem in Requiem for Used Ignition Cap is deeply rooted in Hill Country soil, with evocations of caliche, live oaks and cedars, Indian blankets and bull nettles, mockingbirds and rattlesnakes, whitetail deer and yellow perch, and the vast, unknowable blue of the Central Texas sky. Here, too, are the people who live among those natural wonders, and the trucks they drive and the guns they shoot and the Bibles they thump and the meth they get high on. And nothing of the place that is conjured—not the antlered buck or the wounded Iraq war vet, not the salt lick or the horseflies or the catfish heads on a clothesline—has an air of distance about it, of being drawn from memories of long ago. The descriptions vibrate with the immediacy of things freshly seen and felt, held just under the skin and still rushing hot through the blood. -The Austin ChronicleBrownlee investigates the breach between the male role he was raised to assume and the man—tender, searching, empathetic—he’s become. These poems often speak through or accompany the men of Llano as they engage in traditional rituals of manhood. They’re former soldiers . . . hunters who eat what they kill . . . laborers whose work shapes their bodies. A collective “we” recurs throughout the book, but Brownlee only sometimes uses it to speak from the perspective of men; other times he speaks in the voices of wildflowers that bloom in the town’s ditches, suggesting he may identify as much with the local flora as with the townspeople. Although his isolation and bewilderment are palpable, Brownlee declines to focus solely on his own pain . . . endeavoring to understand the impact of Llano’s landscape and culture not just on his own life but on the lives of those who have stayed there. This book is a love song—to the people of Llano, yes, but most simply and beautifully to its fields and trees, its birds and flowers, its white-tailed deer. Brownlee deliberately seeks to re-inhabit his home, and despite discomfort and alienation, finds empathy for a community that may ultimately not include him. -Beloit Poetry Journal
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About the Author J. SCOTT BROWNLEE is a poet from Llano, Texas. His work appears widely and includes the chapbooks Highway or Belief, which won the 2013 Button Poetry Prize, Ascension, which won the 2014 Robert Phillips Poetry Prize, and On the Occasion of the Last Old Camp Meeting in Llano County, which won the 2015 Tree Light Books Prize. His first full-length collection, Requiem for Used Ignition Cap, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and selected by C. Dale Young as the winner of the 2015 Orison Poetry Prize. Brownlee is a founding member of The Localists, a literary collective that emphasizes place-based writing of personal witness, cultural memory, and the aesthetically marginalized working class. He teaches for Brooklyn Poets as a core faculty member and is a former Writers in the Public Schools Fellow at NYU, where he earned his MFA. Brownlee currently lives in Philadelphia and is at work on The City Irrevocably, a novel set in Austin, Texas, and A Little Bit of Hardly Anything, a second full-length poetry collection.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. The love (and loss) of home... a great addition to anyone's bookshelf. By Amazon Customer J. Scott Brownlee's collection is beautiful, inside and out. Requiem for Used Ignition Cap is an elegiac portrait of his homeland in rural Texas, praising its virtues and raising questions about its vices. Brownlee creates the portrait of rural Texas the way most poets create people, and this portrait is beautiful, but flawed, made up of the landscape, the flowers, the traditions, and the familiar and unknown characters. The people who appear in Brownlee's collection are a special breed who know the value of hard work, who use the strength in their hands and backs to support their families, who have fought wars, who have been addicted, who have suffered and survived. The natural world also plays a large role in Brownlee's poetry, and is both "man versus nature" and "man is (part of) nature." Some poems describe moments when man and nature collide, and it isn't pretty, though Brownlee's language absolutely is. For the first time in my life I am describing myself as a fan of "roadkill" poems. Thank you, J. Scott Brownlee.At the end of this collection, we feel the love and loss of home, of being from something and yet also apart from it.Highly recommended.If you have a chance to see this poet read, please do yourself a favor and GO.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Gorgeous Requiem Indeed By Michelle B. An exquisite, pressing intelligence hums through Brownlee's collection, coupled with a passion and aching insight that impressed me immeasurably. He gives us Llano, Texas--cradle of his childhood--with all its glories and brokenness, as well as the poet born and jettisoned forth from that strange and terribly American place. This is a loving and mournful meditation, at once ode and elegy, and the everyday, in-between realities miraculously lived through. Brownlee describes the gamut unflinchingly, meticulously--from wildflowers to Walmart in a single bound--and makes a marvelous art of it. With the precision and maturity of voice realized here. it's hard to believe this poet's as young as he is. Lucky for us, this only means we'll be blessed with his talent for many years to come.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. An Impressive Debut By Jessica L. Jacobs These poems are defined by their relentless searching: What good is a home that doesn't hold you, or a God who allows men to sacrifice themselves to drugs and war? And, most of all, who are we when bereft of both home and God? How do we forge our identities when we've walked away from what has shaped us? Carried by the lyricality of these poems, as well as their precise observations of everything from wildflowers to beer brands, I found myself questing alongside J. Scott Brownlee and feel enriched for having done so. An impressive debut.
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