Fleda Brown, professor emerita at the University of Delaware and a faculty member of the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, served as Delaware's poet laureate from 2001 to 2007. Her many books include, most recently, On the Mason-Dixon Line: An Anthology of Contemporary Delaware Writers, coedited with Billie Travalini, and the award-winning poetry collection Reunion.

"Throughout this stunning book of essays, we journey into memory through a 'music made of accumulation.' Fleda Brown's voice is edgy, direct, yet surprisingly tender. A decrepit summer cottage, a brain-damaged brother, even an exhaustingly difficult father are all part of the symphony she offers her lucky readers."—Rebecca McClanahan, author of The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings "In these elegant, associative essays, Fleda Brown writes movingly of her metamorphosis in spirit, body, and mind from her hoop-skirted childhood to the present. Her essays are often elegiac, always tender and compassionate, her language a poet's, her memory a composer's."—Robin Hemley, director of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa "Fleda Brown's memoir, Driving with Dvorak . . . invokes the elegiac tradition while Brown drives us across spaces as wide as America itself: the architecture of family, marriage, divorce and re-marriage, and the essential defining of self."—Scott Whitaker, Broadkill Review

• AcknowledgmentsChanging My NameI Am Sick of SchoolAnatomy of a SeizureDriving with DvorakWalls Six Feet ThickSummer HouseRelativity for DummiesTo Tell a StoryHiking with AmyNew CarWar of the RosesReturning the CatsShowgirlsPrivate BathWhere You AreSoft Conversations

Fleda Brown, professor emerita at the University of Delaware and a faculty member of the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, served as Delaware's poet laureate from 2001 to 2007. Her many books include, most recently, On the Mason-Dixon Line: An Anthology of Contemporary Delaware Writers, coedited with Billie Travalini, and the award-winning poetry collection Reunion.

"Throughout this stunning book of essays, we journey into memory through a 'music made of accumulation.' Fleda Brown's voice is edgy, direct, yet surprisingly tender. A decrepit summer cottage, a brain-damaged brother, even an exhaustingly difficult father are all part of the symphony she offers her lucky readers."—Rebecca McClanahan, author of The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings "In these elegant, associative essays, Fleda Brown writes movingly of her metamorphosis in spirit, body, and mind from her hoop-skirted childhood to the present. Her essays are often elegiac, always tender and compassionate, her language a poet's, her memory a composer's."—Robin Hemley, director of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa "Fleda Brown's memoir, Driving with Dvorak . . . invokes the elegiac tradition while Brown drives us across spaces as wide as America itself: the architecture of family, marriage, divorce and re-marriage, and the essential defining of self."—Scott Whitaker, Broadkill Review

• AcknowledgmentsChanging My NameI Am Sick of SchoolAnatomy of a SeizureDriving with DvorakWalls Six Feet ThickSummer HouseRelativity for DummiesTo Tell a StoryHiking with AmyNew CarWar of the RosesReturning the CatsShowgirlsPrivate BathWhere You AreSoft Conversations