Allegory of the Supermarket

by Stephanie Brown

Book Overview

Stephanie Brown offers a hint of something curiously ominous through the sly epigraph she chooses from Henry James--"The amount of thought they give to their clothing, the people who are afraid of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820320684
• ISBN13: 9780820320687
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

One of the Best!

Great for women of all natures, especially other writers who are able to appreciate and understand Brown's astute observation of human behavior and all its flaws. GREAT READ. You'll return to this book to enjoy how fresh each poem is--no matter how many times you've read them. I especially love the poems that address beauty and weight concerns, as well as our tendency to become obsessed with the exterior. Her title poem is great, too. A very unique allegory that will have you thinking profoundly the next time you go grocery shopping. READ IT!

One of the Best

This is a poetry book I keep coming back to. It's great for a quiet night inside; it's honest, brave, and empowering. As a poet myself, I return to Brown's book because of the admiration I have for the style and veracious voice she uses to examine some of culture's most inexplicable reasonings. This book is definately one of my favorites and I recommend it whole-heartedly.

Witty and Enjoyable

Brown's poems tend to deal with daily domestic and upper-middle class life in an non-domestic, not-so upper-class style. They target more than one subject at more than one angle, whether its women obsessed with their own physical appearances, suave-feeling cheeseball men, suburbanites, the petty upper-class or mentally unstable parents. The poems take chances with rhymes and experiments with repetition and rhythms which often produce sing-song narrative. Her best poems are "I Was a Phony Baloney!" and "Mommy Is A Scary Narcissist."