Stay, Illusion: Poems

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Stay, Illusion: Poems

National Book Award Finalist

Stay, Illusion, the much-anticipated volume of poems by Lucie Brock-Broido, illuminates the broken but beautiful world she inhabits. Her poems are lit with magic and stark with truth: whether they speak from the imagined dwelling of her â€œAbandonarium,â€ or from habitats where animals are farmed and harmed â€œhumanely,â€ or even from the surreal confines of death row, they find a voice like no otherâ€”dazzling, intimate, startling, heartbreaking.

Eddying between the theater of the lavish and the enigmatic, between the gaudy and the unadorned, Brock-Broidoâ€™s verse scours America for material to render unflinchingly the here and now. Grandeur devolves into a comic irony: â€œWe have come to terms with our Self / Like a marmoset getting out of her Great Ape suit.â€ She dares the unexplained: â€œThe wings were left ajar / At the altar where Iâ€™ve knelt all night, trembling, leaning, rough / As sugar raw, and sweet.â€ Each poem is a rebellious chain of words: â€œBe good, they said, and so too I was / Good until I was not.â€ Strange narratives, interior and exterior, make a world that is foreign and yet our own; like Dickinson, Brock-Broido constructs a spider-sibling, commanding the â€œsilk spool of the recluse as she confects her eventual mythomania.â€ And why create the web? Because: â€œIf it is written down, you canâ€™t rescind it.â€

Country	USA
Author	Lucie Brock-Broido
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780307962027
Edition	1st
ISBN	0307962024
Label	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
MPN	9780307962027
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	112
PartNumber	9780307962027
PublicationDate	2013-10-15
Publisher	Knopf
ReleaseDate	2013-10-15
Studio	Knopf

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