Trouble in Mind

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Trouble in Mind

With Trouble in Mind, her long-awaited third collection, Lucie Brock-Broido has written her most exceptional poems to date. There is a new clarity to her work, a disquieting transparency, even in the midst of the wild thickets of language for which she is known. A poet â€œat the border of her own allegory,â€ Brock-Broido searches for a lexicon adequate to the extremities of experienceâ€“a quest that is as capricious as it is uncompromising. In the process, she reveals, unsparingly, things as they are. In â€œPamphlet on Raveningâ€ she recalls, â€œI was a hunger artist once, as well. / My bones had shone. / I had had rapture on my side.â€ The book is laced with sequences: haunted, odd self-portraits; a succession of poems provoked by discarded titles by Wallace Stevens; an intermittent series of fractured and beguiling lyrics that she variously refers to as fragments, leaflets, and apologues.

Trouble in Mind is a book that astonishes us afresh at the agility and the uncanny will of language, which Brock-Broido is not afraid to follow where it may lead her: â€œThat the name of bliss is only in the diminishing / (As far as possible) of pain. That I had quit / The quiet velvet cult of it, / Yet trouble came.â€ Even trouble, in Brock-Broidoâ€™s idiom, becomes something resplendent.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2005-10-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375710223

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Paperback
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2005-10-04
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780375710223

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