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80 pages, $12 paper,
ISBN 0-9660459-5-5

Winner, Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Poetry Prize
Finalist, Lambda Literary Award

Red contains poems of such elegant form that the power of Braverman’s already moving elegies is compounded.”
—Dennis Loy Johnson, Mobylives.com

“An ebullient and very believable voice…disarming and charming….”—Publishers Weekly   

“With a generosity of spirit, an instinct for the lyric and a fiction writer’s gift for narrative structure, Braverman keeps us moving through the overlapping circles of a particular place and time.”—Readerville

“Melanie Braverman’s poems are a house with all the doors and windows open; the winds of feeling blow through them, and make everything alive with change, alert with a kind of freshness and possibility.” —Mark Doty

“Intelligence, inquisitiveness, candor, and wit wedded to molecular intuition — Melanie Braverman’s poems emit fierce equanimity and grace.” —Olga Broumas



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Melanie Braverman is the recipient of grants in both fiction and poetry from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and her work has appeared in various journals, including American Poetry Review, American Voice, and Southern Poetry Review. She is the author of a novel, East Justice (Permanent Press, 1996), and teaches in the Spoleto Artists Symposia in Italy, the Fine Arts Work Center summer and fall workshop programs, and now teaches at Brandeis University. She lives in Provincetown, MA.