Derrick Browns fourth collection of poetry won the Texas Book of The year prize.Poems and short storiesampampnbsppresented as an unrelenting machine of honesty that has been called hisampampnbspmost personal collection of work.ampampnbspStrange Lightampampnbsptakes us back to the docks to a violent drama class and boring prom an undersea conversation with Jacques Cousteau and into his famous romantic bursts of verse. The epic poemampampnbspStrange Light anchors this collection as one of the most inventive and potent collections of modern American poetry.ampampnbsp. called his 2009 collection Scandalabra one of the best books of the year. Everything hilarious and stirring is illuminated. The power ofampampnbspStrange Lightampampnbspis waiting.