Remember the Brotherhood: Poems of Carter Lee Aldridge
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Matthew Robb Brown met Carter Lee Aldridge at Saginaw Valley State University in 1973. They continued a friendship in Midland, Michigan, built around God, the arts, music, the outdoors, and literature--especially poetry--until 1978, when Aldridge moved, with most of his family, to Georgia to mitigate what they thought would be serious consequences from the energy crisis of the 1970s. He and Brown had corresponded before, and now continued this correspondence, sharing artworks, news, thoughts, and poems, until Aldridge's passing in 1990. Remember the Brotherhood contains all of Aldridge's known extant poems, plus found poems that Brown has created from their letters (Aldridge's language could be and often was poetic in all his writings), plus commentary and a few relevant poems by Brown.
“This collection of poems is a tribute to a long and deep
friendship between Matthew Robb Brown and Carter Lee Aldridge.
Especially intriguing are the poems written as letters—or perhaps
they are letters written as poems. The sometimes-intimate sharing
illuminates the treasure of this brotherhood.”
—Dwight Bitikofer, president emeritus, St. Louis Poetry
Center
“These brief poems with their short lines are but distilled wisdom,
with all the simplicity yet profundity of haiku. Any one could
stand as a starting point for contemplation. They also stand as a
testimony of the friendship between the poet, who died over thirty
years ago, and their editor, Matthew Robb Brown, who has collected
and beautifully presented these treasures.”
—Stephen Dunhill, editor, The Merton Journal
- Title: Remember the Brotherhood: Poems of Carter Lee Aldridge
- Authors: Matthew Brown, Carter Lee Aldridge
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666797602, 9781666797596, 9781666737769, 1666797596, 1666737763, 166679760X
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666797602
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-12-11T03:28:12Z
Matthew Robb Brown has been writing and publishing poetry since
1969. He earned his master’s of fine arts in poetry at Ashland
University (2016). His book, Again with the Light, is from
Resource Publications (2020). Matthew’s work has appeared in
journals and anthologies, most recently Image 102 and The
Merton Journal (Advent 2021). His friend Carter Lee Aldridge,
who passed away in 1990, was a poet and print artist.