Stay, Illusion

Poems

Lucie Brock-Broido

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KNOPF
15 March 2015

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

The much anticipated volume of poems from acclaimed poet Lucie Brock-Broido--a pioneering collection that brings her work, and our understanding of the broken but beautiful world she inhabits, to a whole new level.

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 ""Abandonarium,"" or from habitats where animals are farmed and harmed ""humanely,"" or even from the surreal confines of death row, they find a voice like no other-dazzling, intimate, startling, heartbreaking.

Eddying between the theater of the lavish and the enigmatic, between the gaudy and the unadorned, Brock-Broido's verse scours America for material to render unflinchingly the here and now. Grandeur devolves into a comic irony- ""We have come to terms with our Self / Like a marmoset getting out of her Great Ape suit."" She dares the unexplained- ""The wings were left ajar / At the altar where I've knelt all night, trembling, leaning, rough / As sugar raw, and sweet."" Each poem is a rebellious chain of words- ""Be good, they said, and so too I was / Good until I was not."" 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 ""silk spool of the recluse as she confects her eventual mythomania."" And why create the web? Because- ""If it is written down, you can't rescind it.""

By: Lucie Brock-Broido
Imprint: KNOPF
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 180mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 206g
ISBN: 9780307962034
ISBN 10: 0307962032
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 15 March 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lucie Brock-Broido is the author of three previous collections of poetry, A Hunger, The Master Letters, and Trouble in Mind, as well as the editor of the poems of Thomas James, Letters to a Stranger. A volume of Brock-Broido's selected poems, Soul Keeping Company was published in the U.K. She is Director of Poetry in the School of the Arts at Columbia University and lives in New York City and in Cambridge, Massachusetts.