Wisdom Teeth

by Derrick Weston Brown

To consider Wisdom Teeth is to acknowledge inevitable movement, shift, and sometimes pain. There’s change hidden just below the surface and, like it or not, once it breaks, everything has to make room. So goes the aptly titled debut poetry collection from poet and educator Derrick Weston Brown. Wisdom Teeth reveals the ongoing internal and external reconstruction of a poet’s life and world, as told through a litany of forms and myriad of voices, some the poet’s own. Wisdom Teeth is a questioning work, a redefining of personal relationships, masculinity, race, and history. It’s a readjustment of bite, humor, and perspective as Brown channels hip-hop, Toni Morrison, and Snagglepuss to make way for the shudder and eruption of wisdom.

Genres: Poetry

136 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Evelyn]

I liked it. It's poetry for the people.

[Spicy T AKA Mr. Tea · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting set of poems by poet Derrick Weston Brown. Some of them made me smile and some of them were pretty thoughtful. Certainly a poet to take a look at.