The Disheveled Bed

A collection of poetry about dislocation in an unexpectedly childless marriage. A time of wandering follows a period of exile and adjustment both within and without. The poems are both lyrical and colloquial with a fascination for invented forms that mirrors the altered circumstances of life.

Andrea Carter Brown was born in Paterson, N.J. She is the author of a chapbook, Brook & Rainbow, which won the 2000 Sow's Ear Press Competition, and her work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, Five Points, and the Mississippi Review, among other publications. Her poetry was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2005 and has received awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Writer's Voice, Thin Air, River Oak Review, and The MacGruffin. She won the 2004 River Styx Poetry Prize for her sonnet crown "September 12." A longtime resident of New York City, she now lives in Los Angeles and is Managing Editor of The Emily Dickinson Journal at Pomona College.