<DIV><p><I>In the Laurels, Caught</I> is a collection of lighthearted, deep-rooted poems written around the Appalachian region of North Carolina in Madison County. An adventurous, intellectually restless native, Lee Ann Brown writes out of attachment but with the slant of a transplanted outsider. She investigates elements of local language, musicality, material culture, and landscape, using collage, found poetry, and oral history and anecdote.</p><p><I>A Daylily's blossom<BR>only lasts one day</I></p><p><I>Binnorie O Binorie O</I></p><p><I>My grandmother showed me<BR>how to have my say</I></p><p><I>O the glory O the glory</I></p><p><I>Now every time I see a faded drooping bud</I></p><p><I>I deadhead it like she did so the rest can live on</I></p><p><I>The story O the story</I></p><p><B>Lee Ann Brown</B> is professor of English at St. John's University. Her book <I>Polyverse</I> won the New American Poetry Series Award. <I>The Sleep That Changed Everything</I> appeared in 2003. She is founding editor of the small press Tender Buttons.</p></DIV>