Local Fauna
Published on 10. February 2015
46 pages
978-1-63101-109-2 (ISBN)
Description
"Local Fauna opens with a meta-poem about Jack Spicer, and I couldn't help but think of his 'dictated' poetry, poetry as vessel, poetry getting down what needs to be said. Brian Brodeur's poems have this urgency-life, death, cruelty, politics, war, capitalism, and love. Hard truths come through the past, radio interviews, zoo animals, neighbors, personas, and pop songs. Brian Broduer's poetry has insistence and morality, inclusivity and beauty. Local Fauna is terrific."
-Denise Duhamel
"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 what contemporary American life actually feels, looks, and sounds like as movingly as Brodeur does. Poems such as 'Cousins,' 'Local Fauna,' and 'The Register' will be with us for a long time indeed. Brian Brodeur is a marvel." -Peter Campion
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Kent, OH
United States
File size
1,04 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-63101-109-2 (9781631011092)
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Brian Brodeur
Local Fauna
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03/2015
Kent State University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Photograph of Jack Spicer Holding a Life-Sized Bust of the Head of Jack Spicer
- Vigil
- Not Versed in Country Things
- Cousins
- Force
- Talk of the Nation
- Local Fauna
- Blight
- Cincinnati Pastoral
- Returns
- Variations on a Theme by Borges
- Homeric Variations
- Mrs. Baumeister
- Little Bestiary
- Dear Proserpina
- The Register
- For the Cigarette Holes in a Favorite Robe
- A Stand of Swamp Maples in Purcellville, Virginia
