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rmI am trying, and failing, to find an affordable used copy of Lucie Brock-Broido's first book of poetry (A Hunger). The best price I can find is over $70. This is _insane_ -- no one reads poetry! Hello?
Aie. She has a new one out though, and that makes me happy. As I've probably spent more hours with The Master Letters than any other book I own, which is saying a great deal.
LJ, btw, seems suddenly to think I live on the West Coast. While an irritant, this charms me.
Having fixed that 100 Gods piece (which basically has the effect, in a really convoluted and somewhat odd way from of switching me to the observed instead of observing), I am both a) desperately trying to write another b) trying to think where to submit it to, being so fucking far out of the poetry loop I don't know what to do with myself.
In partial response to my query earlier in the week, yes, Lucie Brock-Broido is so my poetry role-model. I didn't realize she taught in the city. Ah, to be a Columbia student (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ladyjaida I think she only teaches grad stuff, not sure -- but she's the poet I kept quoting to you in alternate narrative context, if that's a way of putting it. If you ever get a chance to study with her, you must tell me all about it).
Having resigned myself to not going to the HP club night, Kat stepped up and now we're going together. I'm excited and bittersweet about so many things.
Anyway, back to Brock-Broido, one of her poems, found on the Internet:
http://www.webdelsol.com/AGNI/ag2-lb.htm
The last lines:
The moment between Have & Shall Not Want, we who have salt
Always know, that we who have--the best of us--did not come back.
She just completely fucking wows me.
And and and... the new Steve Erickson is out.
Aie. She has a new one out though, and that makes me happy. As I've probably spent more hours with The Master Letters than any other book I own, which is saying a great deal.
LJ, btw, seems suddenly to think I live on the West Coast. While an irritant, this charms me.
Having fixed that 100 Gods piece (which basically has the effect, in a really convoluted and somewhat odd way from of switching me to the observed instead of observing), I am both a) desperately trying to write another b) trying to think where to submit it to, being so fucking far out of the poetry loop I don't know what to do with myself.
In partial response to my query earlier in the week, yes, Lucie Brock-Broido is so my poetry role-model. I didn't realize she taught in the city. Ah, to be a Columbia student (
ladyjaida I think she only teaches grad stuff, not sure -- but she's the poet I kept quoting to you in alternate narrative context, if that's a way of putting it. If you ever get a chance to study with her, you must tell me all about it).Having resigned myself to not going to the HP club night, Kat stepped up and now we're going together. I'm excited and bittersweet about so many things.
Anyway, back to Brock-Broido, one of her poems, found on the Internet:
http://www.webdelsol.com/AGNI/ag2-lb.htm
The last lines:
The moment between Have & Shall Not Want, we who have salt
Always know, that we who have--the best of us--did not come back.
She just completely fucking wows me.
And and and... the new Steve Erickson is out.
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Date: 2005-03-26 06:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-26 06:19 pm (UTC)I know it's walmart, but it's new, paperback and $12
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Date: 2005-03-26 06:34 pm (UTC)Books-a-million , $18
And I agree about wal-mart. It was the first good hit I had when searching.
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Date: 2005-03-26 06:35 pm (UTC)I can wait til October since it's being rereleased.
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Date: 2005-03-26 06:39 pm (UTC)Yes, I'm a geek.
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Date: 2005-03-26 07:31 pm (UTC)I wish I'd known about it slightly more in advance - I would have loved to have gone.
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Date: 2005-03-26 07:43 pm (UTC)I've also gotten some seed ideas for two more pieces in the series... so we'll see what happens.
Yeah... I never know far enough in advice about these club things, but there will be a full report.
Will mail you this weekend about socializing.
Also, think you will love the Brock-Broido pieces I just posted links to.
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Date: 2005-03-26 07:57 pm (UTC)I did read and enjoy the Brock-Broido pieces. I will type up a poem or to that I think you will enjoy and post it in my Livejournal in a bit, from a book my best friend sent me.
Re: socializing -- All right.
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Date: 2005-03-27 07:18 am (UTC)Me too.
In partial response to my query earlier in the week, yes, Lucie Brock-Broido is so my poetry role-model. I didn't realize she taught in the city. Ah, to be a Columbia student (ladyjaida I think she only teaches grad stuff
You know I can take courses at Columbia for free, right?
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Date: 2005-03-27 08:44 am (UTC)I have no idea if you'd like her work, but it's agressively verbal and would at least really interest you evne if it made you want to yell at her.
I like the auditory sound of her poems, as well as their elegance. They make me want to read aloud to people.
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Date: 2005-03-27 10:21 am (UTC)http://www.getcheapbooks.com/gcb_new/compare2.asp?isbn=0394758528
getcheapbooks.com was a lifesaver in getting my textbooks this year.
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Date: 2005-03-27 10:21 am (UTC)