"The Los Angeles at Lankershim"
from Andrea Carter Brown's
The Disheveled Bed

Andrea Carter Brown:

Andrea Carter Brown was born in Paterson, New Jersey. She is the author of a chapbook, Brook & Rainbow, which won the 2000 Sow's Ear Press Competition, and her work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, Five Points, and the Mississippi Review, among other publications. Her poetry was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2005 and has received awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Writer's Voice, Thin Air, River Oak Review, and The MacGuffin. Most recently, she won the 2004 River Styx Poetry Prize for her sonnet crown "September 12." A longtime resident of New York City, she now lives in Los Angeles and is Managing Editor of The Emily Dickinson Journal at Pomona College. (Photo by Star Black © 2005)

About The Disheveled Bed:

"The precision and wit of Andrea Carter Brown's language transform events that are almost aggressively mundane into exemplars of human enterprise. Her book joins those which subject the increasing medicalization of contemporary life to poetry's scrutiny. But above all, she is a nature poet of urban life."
— Marilyn Hacker

"Andrea Carter Brown’s remarkable debut book, The Disheveled Bed, may be disheveled in circumstance, but never in craft or intensity. The poems here amount to the chapters in a love story of such power, resonance, sadness, and happiness that I hardly know where to begin to recommend them. Filled with passionate craft, a collected wisdom, and the heartbreaking story of a woman and a man in search of a child who find themselves instead, The Disheveled Bed is the first book of poems every poet dreams of: naturally intelligent, unselfconscious, yet knowing, and with a full chiaroscuro of hope and pain. It is like a banquet set among shadows. Here, sit, read, and feast."
— Molly Peacock

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