Short Biography: Catharine Savage Brosman, who lives in Houston, is Emerita Professor French at Tulane University (New Orleans), Honorary Research Professor at the University of Sheffield (England), and serves as poetry editor for Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. She is the author or editor of numerous books on French literature. Her creative publications comprise two volumes of non-fiction prose and six collections of poetry. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications.  

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Purchase Breakwater: Poems By author: Catharine Savage Brosman Product Code: H797 ISBN: 9780881461800 Other ISBN: 0881461806 Publisher: Mercer University Press Binding Information: Hardback  Availability: In stock. Price: $30.00 Breakwater, Catharine Savage Brosman’s new collection, presents a wide variety of lyrics, narrative poems, and meditations in free verse, blank verse, rhymed quatrains, and other forms. Whether she is describing the flight of egrets, a bougainvillea vine, a family running from the Nazis, the beauties of Unaweep Canyon in southwestern Colorado, or adventures of the heart, Brosman’s technique allows her to convey the very essence of her topic by those incantations and “immaterial conceits” (as the poem Éventail puts it) that are the mark of exceptional poetry. Qty:

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