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As a nationally recognized correspondent and anchor for the PBS Jeffrey Brown has reported on important events around the world. In his debut poetry collection, he re-imagines and re-tells his experiences through poems that explore stories hes covered, places hes gone, people hes met, the thrills and doubts of his profession, as well as the profound intimacy of family. In these pages we hear the narratives of artists, inmates, cadets, and survivors of the worlds tragedies, as Brown conveys both suffering and triumph with a music that pays tribute to the multitude of human voices, opening his own life and expression for public viewing. Full of self-examination, brave honesty, and wry humor, captures not whats on one side of the lens but all that surrounds it.In his introduction to the book, former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky writes, "Jeffrey Brown in this book apprehends some specific realities: the news as a medium and the news that is the mediums object. Browns poetry examines that material in a new way, giving it a fresh, urgent form.By honoring the human voice, Jeffrey Brown has brought a remarkable, fresh kind of attention to these questions of identity and presence, delusion and awarenessin the specific realm of television news and in life itself."Browns experiences before the relentless eye of the camera and within the churn and pressure of the