Threaded with echoes of familial trauma-a sister's battle with cancer, a brother's struggles with depression-the lyric poems in The Human Half reveal an open-hearted speaker who finds solace in the beauties of celestial navigation, the flowers along the railroad tracks, and the brushwork of Vermeer and Van Gogh. Filled with quirks of perception, Deborah Brown holds space for wonder amidst of life's seasons of longing.
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Threaded with echoes of familial trauma-a sister's battle with cancer, a brother's struggles with depression-the lyric poems in The Human Half reveal an open-hearted speaker who finds solace in the beauties of celestial navigation, the flowers along the railroad tracks, and the brushwork of Vermeer and Van Gogh. Filled with quirks of perception, Deborah Brown holds space for wonder amidst of life's seasons of longing.
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