The Master Letters: Poems. Lucie Brock-Broido. A.A. Knopf, - Poetry - 83 pages. 0 Reviews. The title of this richly textured book derives from two of the three mysterious letters left by Emily Dickinson--the ones addressed to "Dear Master." Lucie Brock-Boido has imagined a series of letters echoing devices found in Dickinson's own work. The Master of Letters Poems by Lucie Brock-Broido. Knopf, $ cloth. Reviewed by Wyn Cooper. Rarely does a book of poems appear that takes us back to poems and poets we know we should read again. Even more unusual is a book that sends us back to these poems with an entirely new way of reading them. The Master Letters is such a book. The title of this richly textured book derives from two of the three mysterious letters left by Emily Dickinson--the ones addressed to "Dear Master." Lucie Brock-Boido has imagined a series of letters echoing devices found in Dickinson's own work. "We feel we are in the presence of something entirely new, " says Bonnie Costello in The Boston bltadwin.ru by: 1.
The Master Letters is such a book. Based loosely on three unsent letters --addressed "Dear Master" and "Recipient Unknown" --that Emily Dickinson left behind, Lucie Brock-Broido's second book is a series of fifty-two poems and letter-poems that serve as "Terrible Crystals" of the history of poetry in English, complete with its accompanying madness. Lucie Brock-Broido is the author of an earlier book of poems, A Hunger (). From to she was a Briggs-Copeland poet at Harvard University. She has taught also at the Bennington Writing Seminars and at Priceton University, and is now director of poetry in the Writing Division in the School of the Arts at Columbia University. Trouble in Mind: Poems. With 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.
Stanley Kunitz said of it, "The poems are original, strange, often unsettling, and mostly beautiful." His words apply with equal cogency to The Master Letters. Her richly textured 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 recipient 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. The New York Times recently announced Lucie's passing in a piece by Richard Sandomir. "Lucie Brock-Broido, whose poetry glistened with embellished, inventive language about her life, beauty, art and real-world people, like a baby who famously fell into a well, died on Tuesday at her home in Cambridge, Mass. She was ". The title of this richly textured book derives from two of the three mysterious letters left by Emily Dickinson--the ones addressed to "Dear Master." Lucie Brock-Boido has imagined a series of letters echoing devices found in Dickinson's own work. "We feel we are in the presence of something entirely new, " says Bonnie Costello in The Boston Review.
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