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Some Problems with Autobiography
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This collection is suited for readers interested in innovative poetry, contemporary social issues, and explorations of identity and language.
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Some Problems with Autobiography, Brian Brodeur's fourth collection, grapples with the porous and fragmentary nature of midwestern American identity in poems that range across prosodic forms and hybrid genres.
By turns self-mocking, meditative, and tragi-comic, this book explores the perils of digital technologies, ecological uncertainties, and the inadequacy of language to convey our collective distress, asking how much pleasure and hardship the human heart can bear.
Brodeur's narrative poems feature a dramatis personae rare in contemporary poetry, including a Syrian refugee enrolled in a writing workshop, the wife of an accused serial killer shopping defence lawyers, a horny psychoanalyst confessing a dream, and a carpenter working for the Department of Education during New York City's first lockdown.
From dramatic-monologue sonnets and narrative sestinas to discursive lyrics cast in Rubaiyat stanzas and Alcaic strophes, Some Problems with Autobiography brings ancient modes into startlingly contemporary contexts.
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ISBN: 9781641773324
Publisher: Encounter Books,USA
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 06 April 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: Encounter Books,USA
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 139.0mm
Height: 215.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 120
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About the Author
Brian Brodeur was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is the author of three previous poetry collections, including most recently Every Hour Is Late (2019) and Natural Causes (2012). Recent poems and literary criticism appear in The Gettysburg Review, The Hopkins Review, Literary Matters, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Southern Review, and The Writer’s Chronicle. Brian lives with his wife and daughter in the Whitewater River Valley. He teaches creative writing and American literature at Indiana University East.
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