{"product_id":"brock-broido-lucie-trouble-inpb","title":"Brock-Broido, Lucie: Trouble in Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003eKnopf, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 04, 2005\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrouble in Mind,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eher 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 \"at the border of her own allegory,\" Brock-Broido searches for a lexicon adequate to the extremities of experience-a quest that is as capricious as it is uncompromising. In the process, she reveals, unsparingly, things as they are. In \"Pamphlet on Ravening\" she recalls, \"I was a hunger artist once, as well. \/ My bones had shone. \/ I had had rapture on my side.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrouble in Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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: \"That 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.\" Even trouble, in Brock-Broido's idiom, becomes something resplendent.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817139908631,"sku":"9780375710223","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/view_archive_768ae397-0646-4905-bd0e-fdae463b5ea5.jpg?v=1703281160","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/brock-broido-lucie-trouble-inpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}