Soul Keeping Company by Lucie Brock-Broido
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. Cover Painting: William Matthew Prior, Boy with Toy Horse and Wagon, c. 1845. Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch. Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
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 radical, brilliantly inventive diction. LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Lucie Brock-Broido is the author of three collections of poetry, A Hunger, The Master Letters and Trouble in Mind (all published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York). In 2008 she published Letters to a Stranger: The Collected Poems of Thomas James with Graywolf Press in the US. 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 Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in New York City and in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781857548402 |
| ISBN 10 | 185754840X |
| Title | Soul Keeping Company |
| Author | Lucie Brock-Broido |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2006-10-31 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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