Cricket Song

Poems by Kent Brown

This small, wondrous book is a beautiful collection of poems by American poet, Kent Brown (1953-2003). The poems encourage us to enjoy the tremendously gratifying moments in life when we can be unburdened of our fears and issues of compromise. Eschewing cynicism in favor of merriment and the joys of dancing with life, Brown sought a true visionary mode of being, thinking and creating.

Kent Brown was born in Hamilton County, Tennessee, and later received a degree in journalism from the University of Georgia. For the last seventeen years of his life, he lived in the Hudson River Valley in Clermont, New York. Many of his poems were written during these years. He is now deceased.

Under the Turtle's Shell

How lovely just to see and smell, to hear sound separate from thought.