Some Problems with Autobiography (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781641773324)

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 defense 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 Rub疂y疸 stanzas and Alcaic strophes, Some Problems with Autobiography brings ancient modes into startlingly contemporary contexts.

Author: Brian Brodeur
ISBN-10: 1641773324
ISBN-13: 9781641773324
Publisher: Criterion Books
Language: English
Published: 02/21/2023
Pages: 88
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.90d