The Master Letters : Poems By Lucie Brock-Broido

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brock-Broido, Lucie

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Women authors.

American poetry.

American poetry--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

Summary:

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. "Not even Brock-Broido's wonderful first book, A Hunger, prepares us for this bold encounter."

Contents:

Intro

Other Books by this Author

Title Page

Dedication

A Preamble to the Master Letters

Contents

Part 1 - (One)

Chapter 1 - Carrowmore

Chapter 2 - Also, None Among Us Has Seen God

Chapter 3 - Rome Beauty

Chapter 4 - Unholy

Chapter 5 - A Brief History of Asylum

Chapter 6 - The Supernatural is Only the Natural, Disclosed

Chapter 7 - Obsession, Compulsion

Chapter 8 - When the Gods Go, Half-Gods Arrive

Chapter 9 - And Wylde for to Hold

Chapter 10 - At the River Unshins Edge

Chapter 11 - Carnivorous

Chapter 12 - To a Strange Fashion of Forsaking

Chapter 13 - Did Not Come Back

Part 2 - (Two)

Chapter 14 - And You Know That I Know Milord That You Know

Chapter 15 - The October Horse

Chapter 16 - Her Habit

Chapter 17 - Prescient

Chapter 18 - Gratitude

Chapter 19 - Dull Weather

Chapter 20 - From the Proscenium

Chapter 21 - Radiating Naïveté

Chapter 22 - Bodhisattva

Chapter 23 - Fair Copy from a Fair World

Chapter 24 - His Apprentice

Chapter 25 - You Can't Always Get What You Want

Chapter 26 - Pursuit of Happiness

Part 3 - (Three)

Chapter 27 - A Glooming Peace this Morning with it Brings

Chapter 28 - Housekeeping

Chapter 29 - Rampion

Chapter 30 - Haute Couture Vulgarity

Chapter 31 - Pompeian

Chapter 32 - Evangelical

Chapter 33 - Into Those Great Countries of the Blue Sky of which we Don't Know Anything

Chapter 34 - Toxic Gumbo

Chapter 35 - In the Attitude Desired for Exhibition

Chapter 36 - For the Lustrum

Chapter 37 - Treason

Chapter 38 - Like Murder for Small Hay in the Underworld

Chapter 39 - Everybody has a Heart, Except Some People

Part 4 - (Four)

Chapter 40 - Moving On in the Dark Like Loaded Boats at Night, Though There is No Course, There is Boundlessness

Chapter 41 - Your Cromwell, Your Thomas More.

Chapter 42 - I Dont Know Who it is, That Sings, nor Did I, Would I Tell

Chapter 43 - Grimoire

Chapter 44 - Desunt Non Nulla

Chapter 45 - That Same Vagabond Sweetness

Chapter 46 - Work

Chapter 47 - The Last Passenger Pigeon in the Cincinnati Zoo

Chapter 48 - Everything Husk to the Will

Chapter 49 - The Interrupted Life

Chapter 50 - How Can it be I am no Longer I

Chapter 51 - The Sleeping Hollow of his Face Will be the Straight Pass of Surrendering

Chapter 52 - Am Moor

Notes

A Note About the Author

Copyright.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

0-307-55782-0

OCLC:

843024153