I wanted many of the poems to have long legs. At first I was calling them clothespin poems, before I knew what I was doing. The lines seem pulled on either end, tight and taut against the wind.
Every thing is changing every minute. - Lucie Brock-Broido
Every thing is changing every minute.
- Lucie Brock-Broido
I think American is very democratic in allowing different hues of language and parts of speech to commingle. William Logan once wrote that I had some… - Lucie Brock-Broido
I think American is very democratic in allowing different hues of language and parts of speech to commingle. William Logan once wrote that I had some…
Something I have "authority" on is animal rights. If I were not already so deep into the path I've taken, deep in the woods, I would probably work wi… - Lucie Brock-Broido
Something I have "authority" on is animal rights. If I were not already so deep into the path I've taken, deep in the woods, I would probably work wi…
Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry. - Lucie Brock-Broido
Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry.
Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body. - Lucie Brock-Broido
Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.
I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world. - Lucie Brock-Broido
I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.
I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption. - Lucie Brock-Broido
I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.
Let me just say that the politics that I have are never the politics of poetics. I am not interested in politics. Politically, I am only very conscio… - Lucie Brock-Broido
Let me just say that the politics that I have are never the politics of poetics. I am not interested in politics. Politically, I am only very conscio…
That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me. - Lucie Brock-Broido
That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.
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