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Simple Fact by Bronwen Butter Newcott

Simple Fact by Bronwen Butter Newcott

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Bronwen Newcott’s Simple Fact is an archive of the slippery, earth-bound pieces of life that make up an extraordinary whole. It is a collection of “Azalea, magnolia, loblolly pine” — intergenerational poems that swing in sensorial, loping shapes through the self: a father’s mortality; the impossible depths of a mother’s beauty and power; the revelatory questions we field from children; the human yearning for more knowledge of God; and the ways the natural world hangs low all around us with its clues and wonder. Newcott’s poems are a field guide for people on the earth who love other people.
–Kirsten Lee Andersen, Author of Family Court

 

Though poetry proves nothing, it can stun us with the truth. In these pages, Bronwen Butter Newcott considers the wonder and confusion of family love, celebrating its intimacies (“and the brightness? / Well, that was everywhere”) while struggling with its distances (“I stand alone in my body / next to you alone // in your body”). Simple Fact gives shape to our most intense connections—the ones that are often too close to see.

–Jody Bolz, Author of The Near and Far

 

 

 

 

 

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In Simple Fact, Bronwen Newcott explores the intricacies of family over generations, “the daughter-mother-sun / rising on repeat.” The collection is a meditation between the seen and the unseen, the “simple fact” and “shadow between… fingers,” insisting that muscular love exists between the two. Newcott’s play forward and backwards in time allows mother and father to be specific, vocational, and archetypal at once. From a juicy orange dripping to the elbow, to the chalky scrim of loss that shadows a generation, Newcott’s poems seek “small sweet proof” that we are living.

Bronwen Butter Newcott was born and raised in Washington, DC and earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland.  Her poems have appeared in Image, Poet Lore, Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner and other journals.  She is the author of Race to the Great Invention, her debut middle grade novel.  Wild about the intersection between written and visual expression, Bronwen spends her time writing, speaking, and teaching art to kids and adults in Southern California where she lives with her family.

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