The Sleep That Changed Everything
WESLEYAN POETRY
LEE ANN BROWN
The Sleep That Changed Everything
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT
Published by Wesleyan University Press,
Middletown, CT 05459
©2003 by Lee Ann Brown
All rights reserved
Designed by Dean Bornstein
Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brown, Lee Ann.
The sleep that changed everything / Lee Ann Brown.
p. cm.—(Wesleyan poetry)
ISBN 0–8195–6621–7 (alk. paper)—ISBN 0–8195–6622–5
(pbk.: alk. paper)
I. Title. II. Series.
PS3552.R6932S57 2003
811'.6—dc21
2002155482
Cover illustration: “Southern Belle,” by Sally Egbert.
To
You
the Other
to
Poets
to
Come
and to
Stephanie Jane Harrison (1964–1986)
Harry Smith (1923–1991)
Marjorie Keller (1951–1994)
Joe Brainard (1942–1994)
Hannah Weiner (1928–1997)
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)
Agnes Lee Dunlop Wiley
my maternal grandmother
(New Year’s Eve, 1902–Valentine’s Day, 1999)
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