Some Problems with Autobiography
Will be published approx. on 6. April 2023
Book
Hardback
120 pages
978-1-64177-332-4 (ISBN)
Description
Some Problems with Autobiography, Brian Brodeur's fourth collection, grapples with the porous and fragmentary nature of midwestern American identity in poems that range across prosodic forms and hybrid genres. By turns self-mocking, meditative, and tragi-comic, this book explores the perils of digital technologies, ecological uncertainties, and the inadequacy of language to convey our collective distress, asking how much pleasure and hardship the human heart can bear. Brodeur's narrative poems feature a dramatis personae rare in contemporary poetry, including a Syrian refugee enrolled in a writing workshop, the wife of an accused serial killer shopping defense lawyers, a horny psychoanalyst confessing a dream, and a carpenter working for the Department of Education during New York City's first lockdown. From dramatic-monologue sonnets and narrative sestinas to discursive lyrics cast in Rubaiyat stanzas and Alcaic strophes, Some Problems with Autobiography brings ancient modes into startlingly contemporary contexts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Reading Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64177-332-4 (9781641773324)
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Person
Brian Brodeur was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is the author of three previous poetry collections, including most recently Every Hour Is Late (2019) and Natural Causes (2012). Recent poems and literary criticism appear in The Gettysburg Review, The Hopkins Review, Literary Matters, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Southern Review, and The Writer's Chronicle. Brian lives with his wife and daughter in the Whitewater River Valley. He teaches creative writing and American literature at Indiana University East.