Research Catalog

Title

The master letters : poems / by Lucie Brock-Broido.

Author

Brock-Broido, Lucie

Publication

• New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1995.
• New York : Distributed by Random House

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Details

Additional Authors

• Vendler, Helen, 1933-
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe
• Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. publisher.
• Random House (Firm) distributor.

Description

x, 83, [1] pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Lucie Brock-Broido's new book takes its title from the three mysterious letters left by Emily Dickinson at her death - two addressed to "Dear Master," the third to someone unknown. Lucie Brock-Broido's verse-letters echo and traverse Dickinson's wilderness of injury and worship; her language is at once blistering and mystical. These are her own brocade devastations - a tapestry of abandonment and bliss.

Subject

• American poetry > 20th century
• American poetry > Women authors > 20th century
• Poetry, Modern > 20th century
• Poetry
• Poetry as Topic
• Poésie
• Poésie américaine > 20e siècle
• Poésie > 20e siècle
• poetry

Genre/Form

Poems.

Note

• "This is a Borzoi book" -- Title page verso.
• Distributor statement from title page verso.
• "Manufactured in the United Statse of America" -- Title page verso.
• Edition statement from title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-83).

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Carrowmore ; Also, None Among Us Has Seen God ; Rome Beauty ; Unholy ; A Brief History of Asylum ; The Supernatural Is Only the Natural, Disclosed ; Obsession, Compulsion ; When the Gods Go, Half-Gods Arrive ; And Wylde for to Hold ; At the River Unshin's Edge ; Carnivorous ; To a Strange Fashion of Forsaking ; Did Not Come Back. -- II. And You Know That I Know Milord That You Know ; The October Horse ; Her Habit ; Prescient ; Gratitude ; Dull Weather ; From the Proscenium ; Radiating Naivete ; Bodhisattva ; Fair Copy from a Fair World ; His Apprentice ; You Can't Always Get What You Want ; Pursuit of Happiness. -- III. A Glooming Peace This Morning with It Brings ; Housekeeping ; Rampion ; Haute Couture Vulgarity ; Pompeian ; Evangelical ; Into Those Great Countries of the Blue Sky of Which We Don't Know Anything ; Toxic Gumbo ; In the Attitude Desired for Exhibition ; For the Lustrum ; Treason ; Like Murder for Small Hay in the Underworld ; Everybody has a heart, except some people. -- IV. Moving on in the dark like loaded boats at night, though there is no course, there is boundlessness ; Your Cromwell, your Thomas More ; I don't know who it is, that sings, nor did I, would I tell ; Grimoire ; Desunt non nulla ; That same vagabond sweetness ; Work ; The last passenger pigeon in the Cincinnati Zoo ; Everything husk to the will ; The interrupted life ; How can it be I am no longer I ; The sleeping hollow of his face will be straight pass of surrendering ; Am Moor.

ISBN

• 0679441743
• 9780679441748

LCCN

95030284

OCLC

• 32698339
• SCSB-11976502

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library