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"Brian Brodeur's formal skill, his feel for the whole history beneath a sentence, a line, a syllable, is matched here only by his unsentimental compassion for the people he renders in his poems. I can think of few other poets who capture.” —Peter Campion

About the author

Brian Brodeur is the author of the poetry collections Natural Causes (2012) and Other Latitudes (2008), as well as the chapbook So the Night Cannot Go on Without Us (2007). New poems and interviews have been published or are forthcoming in AWP Writer's Chronicle, Crab Orchard Review, Measure, 32 Poems, Shenandoah, and The Southern Review. Brodeur curates the blog "How a Poem Happens," an online anthology of over 150 interviews with poets. A 2013 Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, he is currently a George Elliston Fellow in Poetry in the Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature Program at the University of Cincinnati, where he serves as an assistant editor for The Cincinnati Review.

Summary

“Brian Brodeur’s formal skill, his feel for the whole history beneath a sentence, a line, a syllable, is matched here only by his unsentimental compassion for the people he renders in his poems. I can think of few other poets who capture.” —Peter Campion

Product details

• Authors: Brian Brodeur
• Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2015
• EAN: 9781606352373
• ISBN: 978-1-60635-237-3
• No. of pages: 46
• Series: Wick Chapbook Series 5; Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Five; Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Five, #5; Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Five, #5; Wick Chapbook Series 5
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies