The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky: Volume One, 1963-1967

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Time Being Books, 1996 - 633 من الصفحات

As the initial volume of an impressive series comprising the full collection of verse by Louis Daniel Brodsky, this book begins with Brodsky's first poem, written during his final months at Yale, in 1963, and traces the author's maturation into his apprentice years (when he was a young graduate student in English, at Washington University, in St. Louis), presenting the hundreds of poems, prose poems, and short, autobiographical prose works he had composed by June of 1967, when he launched his professional writing career.

These pieces serve not only as a measure of Brodsky's evolution as a poet but as a human being, chronicling one man's struggle to find his purpose in life, to make a place for himself in a society often at odds with his own convictions. His hopes, fears, and frustrations permeate the work, revealing the intense inner conflicts he felt compelled to set to paper, from individual matters -- his indecision over vocational goals, his candid experiences with love and rejection, the overwhelming isolation inherent in his academic pursuits -- to more global concerns, especially his acute awareness of the increasing social and political turbulence surrounding him.

By grappling with these issues in his writing, he explored passionate emotions, released tension, and, at times, resolved doubts evoked through his introspection. But more important, he used this outpouring to hone his creative skills and develop his personal and professional identity, ultimately creating this tangible record of his travail and his ecstasy, his certitude and his confusion, and, finally, his journey into the heart of the person he would never stop becoming -- a poet.

 

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A new school year
310
The Sport of Winds
311
When an early autumn rain
312
I live between Biblical pages
313
A soft day this day
314
Breath comes knocking
315
Tenement Eyes
316
A person is only as crazy
317

Each in Its Ordered Place
xiv
Just Dont Touch Our Eyes
xv
This Morning Means Lifetime
xvi
El cielo azulado
xvii
I watch I perceive
xviii
Saul
xx
Waking from lugubrious dream
xxii
Last Rites of a Woodcut
xxiii
The Dream of Gambrinus
xxiv
Spiritus mundi
xxv
Selfish crystals of mesmeric luminosity viscosity
xxvi
Jack Sprat could eat no fat
xxvii
Segovia
xxviii
Phrenology
xxix
Your absence this lack of even the
xxx
I wish to be born again
35
Primavera
36
The mind of the suns widowed night
38
Resent being used
40
Child of Life
41
Mere Child of Laughter and Night
43
A Boy and His Dog
44
Thought today about theme
45
Time There Was Then
46
And You Have Gone Away Now
47
More Are You Becoming
48
Winters Yawn
49
Charing Cross Station
50
He who makes a beast of
51
Mr Cartoone can you take a call
52
The warmup time for a
56
The Happiest Little Shrew
57
A Description of a City Conflagration
61
Inch by inch like the layers of an onion
80
A Day for Daydreams
82
Peanuts Cashews Hersheys
83
Truth is consciousness and youth
85
Time There May Be
86
Love
87
The Ozark Hunter
88
Am sitting in the university
89
The Hounds of the Bastardvilles
90
Lord Byron
91
December Rabbit Hunt
93
Cigarette after useless cigarette
95
Its all a matter of communication
96
One Rain
97
Dr Johnsons Smile
98
There are times when I
108
She thinks now cowers benignly
109
Tonight I watched the whole world
110
How much easier it would be
111
During the refrigerated nighttime
113
Rain Is a Pretty Sign
116
Reverie of an Ozark Hunter
117
I think you are going too fast for me
119
Circus Glimpse
122
One Moment Forever
123
Strangers Beneath the Sky
124
Hard times hard times and Im afellin low dis day
125
Tonight is a balmy
126
Blue yawns fawning a grief
131
Loomings
132
An Experiment in Insomnia
136
Eclipse
142
Today I am smoking
143
Along the Gulfpaved horizons
144
The apartment was heavy but warm
145
Death
149
La estrella independiente
150
Loss of Grace
155
I awakened this morning
156
Her soft breath nuzzled warmly
157
The Breakfast
158
Hanley Dace
159
The mans mind in the child
160
Blessed are the meek
174
A Fathers Despair
175
Faith Is
176
I am imprisoned beneath the ceiling
178
To fall asleep in the embrace
181
I was the last man I dreamed
182
The Fallowness of Night
186
The image of the Phoenix
187
The Eve of Janus
190
The Green Hamlet
192
What is involved in making
193
Table Talk
194
Yesterday I wrote a vignette
195
Downdropping the flesh of eyes in uplifting surprise
196
Old Negro Ladys Winter Wait
197
Winter is a time to think
198
Endless are the systems
200
Though it was a mere
204
Viet Nam
205
Two children who were called
206
Today is Sunday
207
Cottage by the Gulf
208
Yearnings
209
The tumid eastern reaches of morning
210
She was a balmy afternoon
211
Random Exigencies
212
The Moon Contends with a Passing Storm
213
She her mouth encircling the moon
214
Contemplation
215
Louis Daniel Brodsky
217
The Conflagration
219
Torrid shivering heatfumes
220
Lines draw taut
222
If I could live in eyes
223
Meditation over Coffee 4765
224
Well Im latched onto the habit
225
The night lights of White Cross
226
The University of White Cross
227
I walk out on Hampdon Downs
228
From White Cross to Redington
229
Pylon
230
Shellstrewn beaches
231
TooLate June
232
Today I am twentyfour years old
233
The night is languishing
234
He wore tight white work trousers
235
Hide and Seek
236
Five Facets of Myself
237
Resurrection
238
Today I lived through
239
Lake Superior rain pelted
240
Trial by Sickness of Christopher Paradise Pariah
241
White Cross is just as young
243
My mind skips rope leaping
244
The Worm
245
The unaccented accident
266
Of Poetry
267
Mulatto
268
The Gentle
270
Andrew Marvell
273
Phases
274
Zoo
276
Park at Dusk
277
Fancy 1
278
I walked out of myself
279
He eats strange
281
Sport of Winds
282
One buildings shadow
283
Seven oclock falls
284
The rains drunk tongues
287
Summer Idyll
288
Designs in Storm Time
290
New York when its crisp like autumn
291
Early June Morning
292
Beginnings
293
What a frustrating sight
294
The Adolescent Caravaggio Writes to the Mistress of His Tutor
295
I threw a silver dollar
297
Rembrandts beggar
298
I wear my Florentine
300
Piazzale Michelangelo
301
The Luna
302
She was so filled with humble grace
303
It was merely
304
Red taillights lick the past
322
Long little leaves of Indian summer
323
The Quarry
324
The Questions
327
A day with woodsmoke
328
Winter Seminar
329
The Front Steps
330
An afternoon kind of work
331
Seminar John Donne
332
Meditation over Coffee 102065
337
I can sit here as I do
339
Last night I sat reading
341
Heading North from Friday
342
I sit here behind this typewriter
344
I listen to the youngsters
345
I stoop to kiss her hair
346
A Crisis
347
I am sick of watching old men
348
I
350
The Hunters and the Hunted
351
The estate of Elizabeth Drayton
353
A fine windy day
358
The Wild Palms
359
I sit here in the university
360
Meditation over Coffee 121065
361
The Mower Against Gardens Marvell
362
A Hard Coming of It
363
Grace After 1945
367
An abstracted disease
368
I am too gaunt to act
369
A cool comfortable evening
370
Election
373
Background sounds
374
Confinement
380
Between the Heron and the Wren
381
Essie
382
Meditation over Coffee 2966
383
A Venetian bright and shimmering
385
Meditation over Coffee 21466
390
Monday morning with Styrofoam snow
391
Meditation over Coffee 22866
392
Already the first of March
393
Repulsion
394
A terminal switcher lurches
395
Curse
398
Seminar Instructor
399
The mind spans interstices
400
Meditation over Coffee 3966
408
Congregating downstairs
409
Night Watchman
411
Fancy 3
412
Tetleys TitMice
413
The difference lies
415
She holds easy as brocade
418
And now it is past
419
Groups of college boys
424
The day broke grey and cool
426
Student Prince
435
Drive home Florida
439
Meditation over Coffee 4466
441
Facing Prospects of War
442
April Seminar
443
Old men fearing usurpation
444
Already it is long past
445
Outside the study
446
The Arcane Archeologist
447
The Trial of a Retiring University Professor
448
They call it a lack of purpose
450
Seminar in Symbolism
451
Inquiring Adam
454
Exigencies
455
A busywheeling car
457
Poverty
459
A Passage to India E M Forster
462
University Nymph
465
Seminar in Symbolism evolved
466
Epiphany
468
April races to impasse
470
Secret
471
A Dialogue
472
A catchall for call girls
473
Communion
474
Unmatched Ecstasy
475
Reductio ad absurdum
476
Boats Against the Current
477
This is the first time
479
The Prodigal Children
481
The Withheld Sensibility
484
If the magician smiles
485
Grandfather to Himself
486
I am what I will be
488
Expulsion
489
This Shallow Grave Is Myself
490
Light rum with a twist of lime
492
A joint crowded with adolescent reprobates
493
This is just a little token
494
The Camp
495
Keep the Fires Burning
496
Exalted Thought
497
Seasons End
499
This is the finer portion of night
500
Temporary Stay
501
Taps
503
Its hard to know
509
The Achieve Of
510
First Class with the Last Professor on Earth
511
Mass Hysteria
512
Zealous Voices
513
Legacy
514
A Tended Vastation
515
The Shepherd passed here
516
The day goes down
517
Did you see that apparition
522
Up from Exile
524
Do Not Disturb
525
The John Wall
527
Like a Rolling Stone
528
Bluegreen neons
530
El Quijote
531
Suggestions of Demise in an Occasional Professor of Modern Poetry
533
Voices swizzle
534
Williams
535
The Personal Creation
536
The Burning Off
538
Land of the Setting Sun
540
William Carlos Williams
541
Another Mother
542
A Newer Consummation
543
The beaches along the Gulf coast
545
Narcissus
546
Valentines Wish
553
Awakening
554
Shall Rise Again
555
Clyde Griffiths Chrysalis
556
Ishmael
557
I am a gross national product
559
Sounds
562
Morality gapes through the bars
563
Whitman
565
The Abiding
566
A Wintering Mimosa
568
March Ides
569
47th Street West
570
The Accomplishing
571
For three weeks I have awakened
574
Proposal
575
The changing of the guard seasons rotate
577
Homecomings
579
Toward a Newer Expression
580
Green green the dazzledizzy lights
581
Gophers burrow backward hurriedly
582
Apocalypse Seen While Under the Influence of Peace
584
Leaves preen for the slow breeze
585
Mother Earth
586
The Uprooting
587
Sortie
588
APPENDIX
591
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
603
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الصفحة xxi - Qué descansada vida la del que huye el mundanal ruido, y sigue la escondida senda, por donde han ido los pocos sabios que en el mundo han sido...
الصفحة xxvii - Jack Sprat could eat no fat, / His wife could eat no lean; / And so between them both, you see, / They licked the platter clean.
الصفحة xix - Yo sueno que estoy aqui de estas prisiones cargado, y sone que en otro estado mas lisonjero me vi. ^Que es la vida? Un frenesi. (Que es la vida? Una ilusion, una sombra, una ficcion, y el mayor bien es pequeno; que toda la vida es sueno, y los suenos suenos son.

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Louis Daniel Brodsky (L.D. Brodsky) was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1941, where he attended St. Louis Country Day School. After earning a B.A., magna cum laude, at Yale University in 1963, he received an M.A. in English from Washington University in 1967 and an M.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University the following year.

From 1968 to 1987, while continuing to write poetry, he assisted in managing a 350-person men's-clothing factory in Farmington, Missouri, and started one of the Midwest's first factory-outlet apparel chains. From 1980 to 1991, he taught English and creative writing, part-time, at Mineral Area Junior College, in nearby Flat River. Since 1987, he has lived in St. Louis and devoted himself to composing poems. He has a daughter and a son.

Brodsky is the author of eighty-two volumes of poetry (five of which have been published in French by Éditions Gallimard) and twenty-five volumes of prose, including nine books of scholarship on William Faulkner and nine books of short fictions. His poems and essays have appeared in Harper's, Faulkner Journal, Southern Review, Texas Quarterly, National Forum, American Scholar, Studies in Bibliography, Kansas Quarterly, Forum, Cimarron Review, and Literary Review, as well as in Ariel, Acumen, Orbis, New Welsh Review, Dalhousie Review,and other journals. His work has also been printed in five editions of the Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry.

 

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