TY - BOOK ID - 14216038 TI - Why Dogs Stopped Flying: Poems PY - 2006 SN - 9780874216451 PB - Utah State University, University Libraries DB - UniCat KW - Conduct of life UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14216038 AB - The solid rightness of image after image in Ken Brewer's poetry was never better than in Why Dogs Stopped Flying. His familiar style is plain-spoken, his humor reliable and self-ironic. Yet, in this collection perhaps more than in his earlier work, the particularity of the poet's insight into the physical world--and the warmth of his affection for it--combine to create an unexpected transcendence. Beasts and bodies are transformed in his lines, and our dim, unremarkable lives on this shadowed earth become somehow more luminous--small suns opening in the dark, small words to the moon. ER -