Background
Julie Bruck was born in 1957, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1 Sussex Dr, Ottawa, ON K1A 0A1, Canada
Julie Bruck, winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry for her collection Monkey Ranch. Surrounded by her Brick Books posse - Kitty Lews, general manager; Alayna Munce, editor of this book and general manager; and Sue Sinclair, editor. At Rideau Hall in Ottawa.
1 Sussex Dr, Ottawa, ON K1A 0A1, Canada
Julie Bruck, winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry for her collection Monkey Ranch. Surrounded by her Brick Books posse - Kitty Lews, general manager; Alayna Munce, editor of this book and general manager; and Sue Sinclair, editor. At Rideau Hall in Ottawa.
Julie Bruck
Julie Bruck
Julie Bruck
Julie Bruck
Julie Bruck
(With crisp, elegant language, sharp wit and resonant imag...)
With crisp, elegant language, sharp wit and resonant images, Julie Bruck's new book gentles the largesse of life out of its many smallnesses. The way a straw buoys up in a can of pop, or a friend’s dress holds her shape, even on its hanger: Bruck textures her poetry with a life "you could close your hand around." Bruck's is the urban world so many of us walk through, eyes closed. But Bruck's eyes are wide open, keen and collecting. With teeth and heart, she cracks open the ordinary to reveal life’s love and loss, joy and fragility, its extraordinary fullness.
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1999
(… a mandrill, a middle-aged woman, a shattered Baghdad ne...)
… a mandrill, a middle-aged woman, a shattered Baghdad neighborhood, a long marriage, even a spoon, grapple with this unanswerable conundrum - sometimes with rage, or plain persistence, sometimes with the furious joy of a dog who gets to ride with his head through a truck’s passenger window. Julie Bruck’s third book of poetry is a brilliant and unusual blend of pathos and play, of deep seriousness and wildly veering humor.
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2012
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Julie Bruck was born in 1957, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Julie has taught at colleges and universities in Canada, and has been a resident faculty member at The Robert Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. Since 2004, she has taught poetry workshops for The Writing Salon in San Francisco, as well as ongoing private workshops, and works individually with poets on both groups of poems and larger manuscripts. She also tutors students at the University of San Francisco. In 2016, she taught at Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, California.
She is the author of four collections of poems from Brick Books: How To Avoid Huge Ships (2018), Monkey Ranch (2012), The End Of Travel (1999), and The Woman Downstairs (1993). Her writing also appears in magazines and journals like The New Yorker, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, Plume, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Ms, Ploughshares, The Walrus, The Malahat Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Maisonneuve, Literary Mama, Numero Cinq, and others. Her poems have been widely anthologized, most recently in the last four volumes of The Best Canadian Poetry In English, as well as in recent Plume Poetry anthologies.
(… a mandrill, a middle-aged woman, a shattered Baghdad ne...)
2012(With crisp, elegant language, sharp wit and resonant imag...)
1999The subjects of Julie Bruck’s poems about urban life are at once distant and very personal: observations from a train, musings on a car alarm, reflections on a friend’s struggle with cancer. Many of her poems evoke a sense of longing, either for times or relationships past, or for self-fulfillment not yet realized.
Julie is married to Lewis Buzbee, a writer. They have a daughter, Madeleine.