Brown: Poems History Science cannot stop the world

Science cannot stop the world from running backwards

their Jewish identity

Though she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy

Trey has other plans

Ada knows it's up to her to find the source

Brown: Poems History Science cannot stop the worldDivided into "Home Recordings" and "Field Recordings," Brown speaks to the way personal experience is shaped by culture, while culture is forever affected by the personal, recalling a black Kansas boyhood to comment on our times. From "History" a song of Kansas high school fixture Mr. W., who gave his students "the Sixties minus Malcolm X, or Watts, barely a march on Washington" to "Money Road," a sobering pilgrimage to the site of Emmett Till's