Yes, No, Maybe

from fairy tales to personal memories, this collection, YES NO MAYBE explores the fiction-making process through which we construct a world. On the one hand, characters like Snow White and Rapunzel are given gritty lives, marred by mortality and change. On the other, the poet's personal past is viewed a simpler time and shines with a fairy-tale-like clarity. Together, these variations represent the yes/no dialectic and show it to be a component of MAYBE, a world full of promise within which anti-ethical elements may be transformed. In his considerations of this complex relationship, Glen Brown attains what is most difficult in an art, a profound simplicity.