Before the Storm Takes It Away

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Baking a cake for Armageddon Choosing the proper superpower Finding solace in the imposed isolation of a world plague In Before the Storm Takes It Away, Gaylord Brewer offers the answers. With topics as far-ranging as fondly recalled feasts in Italy to Charlton Hestons Holy Bible, the pleasures of home birding to cooking with blood, simple bucolic pleasures to the deafening silence of lost friends, tales of beloved dogs to homoeroticism in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, to solar eclipses, gardening, and the rising death toll, Brewer steps away from poetry in these explosive and surprising explorations in brief nonfiction. What begins as a one-year experiment in genre becomeswhen March 2020 arrives with its altered worldthe authors pandemic book. And more. From whence that trepidation throughout the winter, so unnerving at the time Those dark prophecies First scent of the storm. Nothing ever the same again.

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Gaylord Brewer is the author of sixteen previous books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and cookery, including the poetry collection Worship the Pig (Red Hen, 2020) and The Poet's Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire (Stephen F. Austin, 2015). His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry and The Bedford Introduction to Literature. His many international residencies include Hawthornden Castle (Scotland) and the Global Arts Village (India), and he has taught in Russia, Kenya, England, and the Czech Republic. Brewer was awarded a Tennessee Arts Commission Fellowship in 2009. He is a native of Louisville, Kentucky, and has been a professor at Middle Tennessee State University for more than three decades.