[03/23/27] Brodey, Jim: Freak Wonder

Nightboat Books, paperback

Publication Date: March 23, 2027

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Jim was like this messenger of chaos. He had this notion of poetry as performance way ahead of his time. He was fabulous. --Eileen Myles

Poet, rock critic, "voracious post-lysergic romantic," and fixture of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture, Jim Brodey was a friend to Frank O'Hara, Duane Allman, and Eve Babitz. He was known as an otherworldly messenger, who, Eileen Myles notes, "writes with a rich, disturbing kind of balance." Bringing together poems from the 1950s to his death from AIDS in 1993, Freak Wonder: The Collected Poems of Jim Brodey is the definitive volume of Brodey's work, a collection cut through with the surreal rock-and-roll resonances of sex, drugs, and poetics at the margins of American culture.