A Brief History Of Time (Salt Modern Poets) - Softcover

The stories in these poems are as sinuous as the syntax that threads them, stitching together an autobiography whose questions of gender, race, and class remain open, while the poems containing them are as strong as the steel door of time.

A Brief History of Time, Beers’ first collection of poetry, is at once an exploration of what it is to grow up in rural America and a treatise for social justice. These poems, many of them award-winning, span a wide range of styles – from plainsong free verse to sestinas to nearly epic works.

The characters/speakers in Beers’ poems range from the rural working class to mythological characters. These poems look at the world with an honest, unflinching eye. She is one of the up-and-coming poets from Generation X we will be hearing a great deal from in the future.