The Master Letters
Published on 24. February 2010
96 pages
978-0-307-55782-7 (ISBN)
Description
The title of this richly textured book derives from two of the three mysterious letters left by Emily Dickinson--the ones addressed to "Dear Master." Lucie Brock-Boido has imagined a series of letters echoing devices found in Dickinson's own work. "We feel we are in the presence of something entirely new, " says Bonnie Costello in The Boston Review. "Not even Brock-Broido's wonderful first book, A Hunger, prepares us for this bold encounter."
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Lucie Brock-Broido is the author of an earlier book of poems, A Hunger (1988). From 1988 to 1993 she was a Briggs-Copeland poet at Harvard University. She has taught also at the Bennington Writing Seminars and at Priceton University, and is now director of poetry in the Writing Division in the School of the Arts at Columbia University. She lives in New York City and in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by this Author
- Title Page
- Dedication
- A Preamble to the Master Letters
- Contents
- Part 1 - (One)
- Chapter 1 - Carrowmore
- Chapter 2 - Also, None Among Us Has Seen God
- Chapter 3 - Rome Beauty
- Chapter 4 - Unholy
- Chapter 5 - A Brief History of Asylum
- Chapter 6 - The Supernatural is Only the Natural, Disclosed
- Chapter 7 - Obsession, Compulsion
- Chapter 8 - When the Gods Go, Half-Gods Arrive
- Chapter 9 - And Wylde for to Hold
- Chapter 10 - At the River Unshins Edge
- Chapter 11 - Carnivorous
- Chapter 12 - To a Strange Fashion of Forsaking
- Chapter 13 - Did Not Come Back
- Part 2 - (Two)
- Chapter 14 - And You Know That I Know Milord That You Know
- Chapter 15 - The October Horse
- Chapter 16 - Her Habit
- Chapter 17 - Prescient
- Chapter 18 - Gratitude
- Chapter 19 - Dull Weather
- Chapter 20 - From the Proscenium
- Chapter 21 - Radiating Naïveté
- Chapter 22 - Bodhisattva
- Chapter 23 - Fair Copy from a Fair World
- Chapter 24 - His Apprentice
- Chapter 25 - You Can't Always Get What You Want
- Chapter 26 - Pursuit of Happiness
- Part 3 - (Three)
- Chapter 27 - A Glooming Peace this Morning with it Brings
- Chapter 28 - Housekeeping
- Chapter 29 - Rampion
- Chapter 30 - Haute Couture Vulgarity
- Chapter 31 - Pompeian
- Chapter 32 - Evangelical
- Chapter 33 - Into Those Great Countries of the Blue Sky of which we Don't Know Anything
- Chapter 34 - Toxic Gumbo
- Chapter 35 - In the Attitude Desired for Exhibition
- Chapter 36 - For the Lustrum
- Chapter 37 - Treason
- Chapter 38 - Like Murder for Small Hay in the Underworld
- Chapter 39 - Everybody has a Heart, Except Some People
- Part 4 - (Four)
- Chapter 40 - Moving On in the Dark Like Loaded Boats at Night, Though There is No Course, There is Boundlessness
- Chapter 41 - Your Cromwell, Your Thomas More
- Chapter 42 - I Dont Know Who it is, That Sings, nor Did I, Would I Tell
- Chapter 43 - Grimoire
- Chapter 44 - Desunt Non Nulla
- Chapter 45 - That Same Vagabond Sweetness
- Chapter 46 - Work
- Chapter 47 - The Last Passenger Pigeon in the Cincinnati Zoo
- Chapter 48 - Everything Husk to the Will
- Chapter 49 - The Interrupted Life
- Chapter 50 - How Can it be I am no Longer I
- Chapter 51 - The Sleeping Hollow of his Face Will be the Straight Pass of Surrendering
- Chapter 52 - Am Moor
- Notes
- A Note About the Author
- Copyright
