New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1994). Hardcover first edition - Includes the poem 'Cora Fry', first published in 1977, and a new sequel, 'Cora Fry's Pillow Book'. "In the original poem, a dramatic monologue narrated by Cora, a young mother and forbearing wife living in rural New Hampshire, Brown's language is as lean and spare as a piece of Shaker furniture. Cora tells the story of her unhappy marriage and the grind of her daily life with a flinty Yankee terseness and stoicism; there is no place in her world for self-pity or self-indulgence." (Publisher's Weekly) In the sequel, middle-aged Cora Fry, now a mail carrier, has become one of the threads holding her small town together. Small square format. 179 pp. ISBN: 0-374144028.