Call and Answer By Joyce Brown and Mary Swann ISBN 0-932616-77-1 Poetry / Art BrickHouse Books, Inc. · November 2005 8 x 10 · Paperback · 44 pp · Our price     $ 20.00         Quantity   25 poems by award-winning writer Joyce Brown are accompanied by more than 25 monoprints by acclaimed artist Mary Swann. The poems and artwork complement each other’s subtlety, beauty, great craftsmanship, and lively spirit. The subjects of Brown’s poems are rooted in the everyday, but reach deeply into the intellect and spirit. Joyce S. Brown is a poet who lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Her poems have appearing in Poetry, Smartish Pace, The American Scholar, The Christian Science Monitor, The Journal of Medical Humanities, Commonweal, Yankee, The Tennessee Quarterly, and other journals. For 10 years, she was a teacher of high school English and world religions; for another 10, she taught fiction and poetry writing at Johns Hopkins University. She also served as poetry editor of Baltimore’s City Paper. In retirement, she has tutored at a juvenile prison and is currently working with at-risk teens in a program called Learning Inc. Mary Swann is a landscape painter and a graduate of Maryland Institute College of Art who exhibits her work regularly in local galleries, as well as in juried exhibitions around the country. She also makes monoprints and appliqué tapestries, a technique she learned from her sister, artist Laine Gifford, who learned it years ago as a student of the master Laliberté. Over the years, Mary has created a large body of appliqué work. Her imagery has always depicted true encounters between humans and creatures in the natural world. She tells the story in a poem or a few brief paragraphs, which are handwritten on white material and sewn on the back of the fabric. Just for fun, Swann has made several storybooks using this technique. A Fearsome Day is the first one to be published. She recently illustrated two other books using monoprints, The Story of the Close Cat, which she also wrote, and Call and Answer, a book of poems by Joyce Brown. Mary lives with her husband on a farm in northern Baltimore County, Maryland.

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