Harry Brown
Harry Brown
An American poet, novelist, and screenwriter, he is best known for novels such as A Walk in the Sun and The Stars in their Courses. His screenwriting credits include Ocean's 11, Sands of Iwo Jima, and the Oscar-winning A Place in the Sun.
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 April 1917
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I'm not sure of any direct influence, but some of my most successful poems are short poems. They have kind of a distilled focus, like Dickinson. They're very elliptical. She is quite elliptical - she distills down to the core. But my poetry doesn't sound like Dickinson's.
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We came down to see the steam cars and there were more than just steam cars, but old gasoline-powered cars and a replica of the Stanley Steamer that set the record 100 years ago.
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The poems in the fifth section are from a book I'm trying to get published.