Stay, Illusion: Poems, by Lucie Brock-Broido
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National Book Award Finalist Stay, Illusion, the much-anticipated volume of poems by Lucie Brock-Broido, illuminates the broken but beautiful world she inhabits. Her poems are lit with magic and stark with truth: whether they speak from the imagined dwelling of her “Abandonarium,” or from habitats where animals are farmed and harmed “humanely,” or even from the surreal confines of death row, they find a voice like no other—dazzling, intimate, startling, heartbreaking. Eddying between the theater of the lavish and the enigmatic, between the gaudy and the unadorned, Brock-Broido’s verse scours America for material to render unflinchingly the here and now. Grandeur devolves into a comic irony: “We have come to terms with our Self / Like a marmoset getting out of her Great Ape suit.” She dares the unexplained: “The wings were left ajar / At the altar where I’ve knelt all night, trembling, leaning, rough / As sugar raw, and sweet.” Each poem is a rebellious chain of words: “Be good, they said, and so too I was / Good until I was not.” Strange narratives, interior and exterior, make a world that is foreign and yet our own; like Dickinson, Brock-Broido constructs a spider-sibling, commanding the “silk spool of the recluse as she confects her eventual mythomania.” And why create the web? Because: “If it is written down, you can’t rescind it.”
Stay, Illusion: Poems, by Lucie Brock-Broido- Amazon Sales Rank: #300342 in Books
- Brand: Brock-Broido, Lucie
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Released on: 2015-03-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.98" h x .38" w x 7.01" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 112 pages
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Gorgeous and grim, elaborate yet forthright about the causes (and the effects) of its sadness, this fourth collection from Brock-Broido (Trouble in Mind) spins, drapes, and sculpts its virtuosic figures around the ideas and emotions of mourning. Often Brock-Broido commemorates her father, remembering him on his own, in her family, in conjunction with her own past selves: €œIf my own voice falters,€ one poem begins, €œtell them hubris was my way of adoring you.€ (Her title quotes Hamlet, addressing his father's ghost.) Long lines deliquesce; long titles and longer sentences mix ceremonial beauty with self-reproach, not only in the many poems that touch on the poet's family but also in the standouts that remember other events, not least the executions of Tookie Williams and other victims of the American death penalty. Part tapestry, part astronomy, part dollhouse, the metaphorical verve that has made Brock-Broido influential—and sometimes controversial—remains abundant: Brock-Broido envisions herself once €œIn a poplin nightgown and my mallow-color shoes,// With all my lionlikes about me,€ and again with €œmy own ivory hillocks, my toy/ Pram filled with slippery mice, my own mares fetlock-deep in squalls/ Of snow.€ And yet—even more than in her previous book (which remembered her mother)—Brock-Broido can grow stark, unornamented, directly moving, too. A poem about a dying body asks, €œPut your hands/ Into the sheets and tell me where the needles are,€ and a fine elegy for the poet Liam Rector concludes, simply, €œWould that our Liam were living still.€ (Oct.)
From Booklist Brock-Broido (Trouble in Mind, 2004) fills the page with long, sweeping lines, taking all the space she needs for her motley cotillions of jostling and twirling ideas and images. Her counterintuitive word choices and usage, sneaky metaphors, and reeled-in-from-afar allusions all somersault through the mind, sparking, flashing, and snapping us awake to a fresh form of attention. In her fourth book, her hopscotch imagination induces us to contemplate what is seen and what is overlooked, what is felt and what is denied. With a fingertip, a raised eyebrow, the touch of a divining rod, a whirled cloak, Brock-Broido sets poems in motion about nature corralled, animals indentured and slaughtered, and melting arctic ice that strands polar bears. The poet sees the world whole and netted. In Heat, she links girls in Belarus to Oswald and the Kennedy assassination to the open-carry gun law in Oklahoma—I just feel more safe, said Joe Wood, cocked / Among the waffles and the syrups and the diners. Like Jorie Graham and Laurie Sheck, Brock-Broido is brainy, alluring, inventive, witty, and tough. --Donna Seaman
About the Author
LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO is the author of three previous collections of poetry, A Hunger, The Master Letters, and Trouble in Mind. She is Director of Poetry in the School of the Arts at Columbia University and has been the recipient of awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in New York City and in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful. An amazing new book of poems from one of our most important, creative, and celebrated poets. By ZMan Stay, Illusion is Lucie Brock-Broido's latest collection of poetry. Here, we see the devastatingly beautiful mind of one of America's most gifted, lyrical and enchanting poets. Her gift of poetry and her depth of awareness is evident in each page of this brilliant and stunning collection. The elegy--an ancient and powerful form--is transformed by Lucie's pen and we as readers could never have imagined something more beautiful and poignant.Perhaps her greatest book in a career of amazing heights and firsts. Stay, Illusion is nominated for the National Book Award and may soon be the winner. All the best to Lucie and I am grateful to have a copy of this book in my hands. All true lovers of poetry must read these poems!
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful. disappointing for me By Vickie Newman I found this collection of poetry overly rife with clever wordplay. I wanted to feel moved &/or informed by something. It's the same for me with the visual arts. After a point, verbal wit serves only to decorate, in contrast to providing a meaningful experience.Take the line, "Whatever suffering is insufferable is punishable by perishable," from Dove, Interrupted.I'm not typically one to compare writers, but I'm going to make an exception here as I just finished reading two incredibly moving collections: "Remnants of Another Age," by Nikola Madzirov, and "The Descent," by Sophie Cabot Black.Here's a slice from Sophie Cabot Black's poem, "Lost": I am still here between the sun/That rises and the one that sets. To remain/Or go on. Which means to talk ...No wordplay here. Just travels straight to my heart. And of course this is subjective.And yet ...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Excellent By Pan head of the lesser nature gods Excellent and fascinating use of language, thought, imagery. Highly recommend for anyone interested in modern poetics. Not recommended for those who prefer poems easily paraphrased into prose.
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