Poetry. "Lewis Brown writes playful religious poetry, a poetry of delight. His work relishes the freedom of surrealist associations and wit without indulging in surrealist mystifications. His poems take great pleasure inlanguage, including a child's delight in teasing it ('It's not all smirky whoop'). What Brown would seem to love most in poetry, however, is 'the precious murmur that spells itself'"—Peter Weltner.

Author City: SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA

Born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, Lewis Brown has been resident in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1959. He wrote his first poem in 1948 at age 11. In the 1960s his poems appeared in Richard Duerden's Rivoli Review, Stan Persky's Open Space, and in Bill Levy's The Insect Trust Gazette. Since then he has published several chapbooks: Algebra for Breakfast (1986), Panama Poems (1992), Travel (1993), OXO Poems (2001), MDCC (2004), 25 Poems (2004), and 20/20 (2007).