Emily Brown

EMILY BROWN is a songer and a singwriter and to wit, a poet, who lives rightly in the city of Oakland, California where she works and studies such things as poetry and the composition of music at Mills College as well as in her daily homeness, sleeps and eats and bakes great and crusty loaves of bread. Her musical life is another life altogether and whereas she has created four complete albums being some a little longer and some a little shorter and listed further are their names and years: Bee Eater (2018), Emily Frown (2016), Green Things (2012), This Goes With Us (2011). Performing sometimes in California and erstwhile in Utah her music she sings it and also plays such instruments as the guitar and the piano, growing in her abilities and growing lately exceedingly funny in between the musical numbers while upon the proscenium or stage.

Limen

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 1

What I want is between softness and stone, 
between god and Adam— what I want, 
is something between fruits and meats. 
I want to move on the water and out of the water, 
I want to hang from the tree and rot in the earth. 

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Ritual

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 1

If a man has a dream and the dream is from God and the man writes a 
play based on the dream, the God, and other things he believes to be Godly 

If a man has an experience one might classify as transcendent and the 
man tries to put that wordless vision into words and practices

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