{"product_id":"trouble-in-mind-paperback-1","title":"Trouble in Mind - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eTrouble in Mind, \u003c\/i\u003e her long-awaited third collection, Lucie Brock-Broido has written her most exceptional poems to date. There is a new clarity to her work, a disquieting transparency, even in the midst of the wild thickets of language for which she is known. A poet \"at the border of her own allegory,\" Brock-Broido searches for a lexicon adequate to the extremities of experience-a quest that is as capricious as it is uncompromising. In the process, she reveals, unsparingly, things as they are. In \"Pamphlet on Ravening\" she recalls, \"I was a hunger artist once, as well. \/ My bones had shone. \/ I had had rapture on my side.\"\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe book\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis laced with sequences: haunted, odd self-portraits; a succession of poems provoked by discarded titles by Wallace Stevens; an intermittent series of fractured and beguiling lyrics that she variously refers to as fragments, leaflets, and apologues. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrouble in Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that astonishes us afresh at the agility and the uncanny will of language, which Brock-Broido is not afraid to follow where it may lead her: \"That the name of bliss is only in the diminishing \/ (As far as possible) of pain. That I had quit \/ The quiet velvet cult of it, \/ Yet trouble came.\" Even trouble, in Brock-Broido's idiom, becomes something resplendent.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith \"Trouble in Mind, her long-awaited third collection, Lucie Brock-Broido has written her most exceptional poems to date. There is a new clarity to her work, a disquieting transparency, even in the midst of the wild thickets of language for which she is known. A poet \"at the border of her own allegory,\" Brock-Broido searches for a lexicon adequate to the extremities of experience-a quest that is as capricious as it is uncompromising. In the process, she reveals, unsparingly, things as they are. In \"Pamphlet on Ravening\" she recalls, \"I was a hunger artist once, as well. \/ My bones had shone. \/ I had had rapture on my side.\"\" The book\" is laced with sequences: haunted, odd self-portraits; a succession of poems provoked by discarded titles by Wallace Stevens; an intermittent series of fractured and beguiling lyrics that she variously refers to as fragments, leaflets, and apologues. \u003cbr\u003e\"Trouble in Mind is a book that astonishes us afresh at the agility and the uncanny will of language, which Brock-Broido is not afraid to follow where it may lead her: \"That the name of bliss is only in the diminishing \/ (As far as possible) of pain. That I had quit \/ The quiet velvet cult of it, \/ Yet trouble came.\" Even trouble, in Brock-Broido's idiom, becomes something resplendent. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378503844063,"sku":"9780375710223","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/e9qdBjE3nh9780375710223.webp?v=1789257924","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/trouble-in-mind-paperback-1","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}