Derrick C Brown's Scandalabra boils with true grit Americana, sensual power and black oceanic wildness.
Written at sea aboard a fishing vessel and in the hills of Tennessee, Derrick Brown's long awaited new collection of poetry and prose roars. With six unique sections never before seen from the acclaimed poet, this collection is sure to keep you on your toes.
I stare in the mirror at where your mouth last was.
I miss how your body felt like a mooring.
Someone who waited like a hospital.
Someone who kissed like it was critical.
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Derrick C. Brown is a novelist, comedian, poet, librettist, gondolier and storyteller from Long Beach, California. He is the winner of the 2013 Texas Book of the Year Award for Poetry and the current Poet Laureate of Los Feliz.
