Fleda Brown: 2 books

The Woods Are On Fire is Fleda Brown’s deeply human and intensely felt poetic explorations of her life and world. Her account includes her brain-damaged brother, a rickety family cottage, a puzzling and sometimes frightening father, a timid mother, and the adult life that follows with its loves,...

Brown was poet-laureate of Delaware and professor emerita at the University of Delaware. No Need of Sympathy was a 2011 National Poetry Series finalist. Included in the book are sonnets from a grandmother to her ten grandchildren, poems about the Big Bang, about child labor, a father and Hemingway’s fishing trip, the moon over Paris, and tent caterpillars.