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Soul Keeping Company: Selected Poems
Lucie Brock-Broido
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Description for Soul Keeping Company: Selected Poems
Paperback. Lucie Brock-Broido's poetry conjures what is half-known, at the limits of experience, in language fierce with a living glitter. This title introduces Brock-Broido's poetry to British readers with generous selections from her three acclaimed collections: "A Hunger", "The Master Letters and Trouble in Mind". Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 14. Weight in Grams: 216.
Lucie Brock-Broido's poetry conjures what is half-known, at the limits of experience, in language fierce with a living glitter. The familiar world becomes richly disquieting, edged with danger: mute conjoined twins creating a violent secret world; Emily Dickinson's enigmatic letters to her 'Master'; a self-portrait of the poet 'with Her Hair on Fire'. "Soul Keeping Company" introduces Brock-Broido's poetry to British readers with generous selections from her three acclaimed collections: "A Hunger", "The Master Letters and Trouble in Mind".
Lucie Brock-Broido's poetry conjures what is half-known, at the limits of experience, in language fierce with a living glitter. The familiar world becomes richly disquieting, edged with danger: mute conjoined twins creating a violent secret world; Emily Dickinson's enigmatic letters to her 'Master'; a self-portrait of the poet 'with Her Hair on Fire'. "Soul Keeping Company" introduces Brock-Broido's poetry to British readers with generous selections from her three acclaimed collections: "A Hunger", "The Master Letters and Trouble in Mind".
Product Details
Publisher
carcanet
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
216g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857548402
SKU
V9781857548402
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About Lucie Brock-Broido
Lucie Brock-Broido is the author of two previous collections of poetry, A Hunger and The Master Letters. She is Director of Poetry in the School of the Arts at Columbia University, and has taught previously at Harvard University, the Bennington Writing Seminars, and Princeton University. She has been the recipient of awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National ... Read more
Reviews for Soul Keeping Company: Selected Poems
Brock-Broido's talismanic words open into a magical territory of 'Domestic Mysticism'... Something in Brock-Broido likes stealth, toxicity, wildness, neon... The poems leap off the page. Helen Vendler, THE NEW YORKER This is a poet who cultivates elegant nerviness and a riveting poetic clairvoyance... In Trouble in Mind we witness the imagination's virtuosity... distilled in the alembic of the poet's ... Read more