A native of southwest Louisiana, BRENT NEWSOM has also lived in Oklahoma, Texas, and, for briefer stretches, China. His poems have appeared in journals such as The Southern Review, The Hopkins Review, PANK, Cave Wall, and Birmingham Poetry Review, as well as several anthologies. Currently he lives in Oklahoma with his wife and two children.
"Brent Newsom's Love's Labors is indeed a labor of love--and of
imagination, wisdom, and artistry. The poems, many knit with form,
wend the tangled sinews and bonds of affection as characters from a
fictional town overlap in their passions and doubts. These
compelling narratives intermingle with the poet's own journey
toward imminent fatherhood as he speaks to his unborn son with an
honesty ripped from the heart and woven through the grace of
memory. Like his son developing in utero, these poems continually
come into being as we return to them and carry them inside."--Tania
Runyan
Brent Newsom's Love's Labors is indeed a labor of love and of
imagination, wisdom, and artistry. The poems, many knit with form,
wend the tangled sinews and bonds of affection as characters from a
fictional town overlap in their passions and doubts. These
compelling narratives intermingle with the poet's own journey
toward imminent fatherhood as he speaks to his unborn son with an
honesty ripped from the heart and woven through the grace of
memory. Like his son developing in utero, these poems continually
"come into being" as we return to them and carry them inside. Tania
Runyan"
The labor of Love's Labors is nothing less than the work of
culture, in all its meanings the food that sustains the body; the
relationships of family, lover, and town; the devotion by which we
seek more than our humanity. It is a book of progress, of spiritual
progress; yet it admits and recognizes failures death, war,
disillusionment and enfolds them into the necessary givens, the
ground of our labor. And love? Love is indivisible from this labor,
revealing itself line by line within each beautifully made poem,
and in the rich connections between them. William Wenthe"
"The labor of Love's Labors is nothing less than the work of
culture, in all its meanings--the food that sustains the body; the
relationships of family, lover, and town; the devotion by which we
seek more than our humanity. It is a book of progress, of spiritual
progress; yet it admits and recognizes failures--death, war,
disillusionment--and enfolds them into the necessary givens, the
ground of our labor. And love? Love is indivisible from this labor,
revealing itself line by line within each beautifully made poem,
and in the rich connections between them."--William Wenthe
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