The Woods Are On Fire

University of Nebraska Press 2017

The Woods Are On Fire is Fleda Brown’s deeply human and intensely felt poetic explorations of her life and world.

My Wobbly Bicycle: Meditations on Cancer and the Creative Life

Mission Point Press 2016

In this book full of pain and joy and raw honesty, Fleda Brown, poet and former poet laureate of Delaware, gives us a real-time account of her cancer diagnosis, chemo and radiation, from the doctor’s phone call to the one-year, all-clear pronouncement.

No Need of Sympathy

BOA Editions 2013

Any one poem in Fleda Brown’s eighth collection may touch on contemporary science, physics, family, politics, the nature of poetry, and the nature of reality.

Driving With Dvořák

University of Nebraska Press 2010

A series of lyrical essays about life in a maddeningly complex family during the even more maddeningly complex fifties and sixties, it adds up to one woman’s story while simultaneously reflecting the story of her times.

Loon Cry

The Watershed Center 2010

I put this collection together, selecting from all the lake poems I’ve written over the years, and including some new ones.

Reunion

2007 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Linda Gregerson

The poems in Reunion insistently turn back toward sources: toward home and the idea of home, toward the body, and toward objects that return us to ourselves.

The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives

Carnegie-Mellon University Press 2004

If Elvis lives anywhere these days, he surely lives in these seductive pages.

Breathing In Breathing Out

Anhinga Press 2002

Nothing is changed and everything is, once words separate us from nature. Fleda Brown’s great skill with that alienating and communicating tool, language, is to show us how dazzlingly strange the familiar world is.

Devil’s Child

Carnegie-Mellon University Press 1998

This dark, ambitious narrative full of voices, echoes and whispers of anguish is deftly plotted and carefully crafted.

Do Not Peel The Birches

Purdue University Press 1993

“The poems in Fleda Brown Jackson’s second book . . . exhibit the kind of present-tense clarity one associates with Elizabeth Bishop . . . . 

Fishing With Blood

Purdue University Press 1988

“A splendid collection of poems with the special merit of being both intensely artful and equally interesting.