Background
Brodsky, Louis Daniel was born on April 17, 1941 in St. Louis.
(The Easy Philosopher is a volume comprising forty-one poe...)
The Easy Philosopher is a volume comprising forty-one poems written by Louis Daniel Brodsky from 1965 to 1967. Striking images of the real and imagined world abound in these pieces, from vivid glimpses of small-town life to surreal portrayals of city existence. And his reflections on universal themes like faith, love, and justice, heightened by provocative accounts of his own experiences, evoke a timelessness that makes them as relevant today as they were nearly four decades ago.
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(Five Facets of Myself, Louis Daniel Brodsky’s first book ...)
Five Facets of Myself, Louis Daniel Brodsky’s first book of poetry, comprises fifty poems written during 1965 and 1966. Striking images of the real and imagined world abound in these pieces, from vivid glimpses of small-town life to surreal portrayals of city existence. And his reflections on universal themes like faith, love, and justice, heightened by provocative accounts of his own experiences, evoke a timelessness that makes them as relevant today as they were nearly four decades ago.
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(With this book’s forty-four chronologically arranged poem...)
With this book’s forty-four chronologically arranged poems, Brodsky captures significant occasions (his wedding anniversary, the death of a friend, Nixon’s resignation) as well as simple details from his daily life (making business trips, eating at small-town diners, watching trains fly past crossing gates as they race to imagination’s destination), all the while analyzing the relevance of his own existence in relation to these events.
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(In the second volume of Louis Daniel Brodsky's narrative ...)
In the second volume of Louis Daniel Brodsky's narrative trilogy about a Northerner's personal odyssey in Faulkner's Mississippi, the main character leaves his Missouri home more and more frequently, for this cultural "oasis" and recognizes that marital discord is at the heart of his flights. Moreover, his original perceptions of the land and its people, based largely on his reading of Faulkner's novels, start to delude him.
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(The second volume in Louis Daniel Brodsky's Complete Poem...)
The second volume in Louis Daniel Brodsky's Complete Poems series, covering his early years as a professional poet, from 1967 to 1976, contains more than eight hundred chronologically arranged pieces. This body of work shows Brodsky developing a number of artistic strategies to record the life he chose outside the realm of academia, which he abandoned after completing his master's degree in creative writing at San Francisco State University in 1968. In an extraordinary inward-looking search for that which would fulfill his need to be an artist and a working man, to lead a life both creative and practical, Brodsky moved to a town of ten thousand in southeast Missouri, to work in a men's-clothing factory. In this milieu, so foreign to him, he composed verse only sporadically for two and a half years. But once at home in his new surroundings, he began producing poems at a prolific rate -- about small-town life, marriage, factory work, days and nights on the road as an outlet-store manager, the birth of his first child, parenthood. These experiences revitalized Brodsky's enthusiasm for his true calling -- capturing in verse the things of this world. His sense of wonder in meeting townspeople and blue-collar laborers, engaging in café society, rural politics, and commerce, gave rise to works he never would have written as an English teacher. To his astonishment, Brodsky discovered that poetry could be wrought out of the most seemingly prosaic elements. And this revelation led him to yet another: that nothing, no matter how imagined or autobiographically revealing, disturbing, or mundane, can be left out if the poet's goal is to get it said honestly, contain his entire life in the lines of one ongoing poem.
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(This volume of seventeen poems introduces us to a new spe...)
This volume of seventeen poems introduces us to a new species, a devolved offshoot of man, bearing apocalyptic scars from Auschwitz and Hiroshima. Mired in hallucinations, Homo supinus, a deformed, androgynous creature who rarely leaves his bed, is unequipped to deal with any reality other than that of his immediate physical requirements. He is the ignoble savage in all of us, a demon-ridden creature who forces us to reevaluate ourselves in light of his degradation.
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(In the concluding volume of Louis Daniel Brodsky's narrat...)
In the concluding volume of Louis Daniel Brodsky's narrative trilogy about a Northerner's personal odyssey in Faulkner's Mississippi, the hypocrisy and bigotry of small-town Oxford, with its commercialization of Faulkner, exacerbate the main character's disillusion, a malaise that ultimately leads to his moral and spiritual degradation.
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(This sequel to Forever, for Now follows the second year o...)
This sequel to Forever, for Now follows the second year of a romance between two middle-aged lovers, mixing erotic poems with those depicting memorable events they share (attending symphonies, going to the zoo, gardening, listening to jazz, traveling and sightseeing, celebrating holidays) as they journey from passion to the deepening, mellowing affection and intimacy of their new life together. Their growing love is highlighted by a gentle sensuousness, perhaps uncommon to many of us today, that is symbolized by the story's pervasive paper-whites, an exotically scented variety of narcissus, to which the pair devotedly tend.
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(This sampler, divided into six sections, each containing ...)
This sampler, divided into six sections, each containing eight poems devoted to one subject -- Imagination, Alienation, Lovesongs, Poet, The Heartland, and Transcendence -- introduces Brodsky's readership to the breadth of his thematic range and might indeed be considered a "garden book of verse."
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(This tender book chronicles the aspirations of a hopeful ...)
This tender book chronicles the aspirations of a hopeful couple as they share in the anticipation and anxiety of pregnancy, the pain, amazement, and pride of delivery, and the wonderment and joy of watching their first child's development from conception to age one, including her birth and homecoming, her visits with grandparents, and her first gestures and attempts at crawling, walking, and talking. Anyone who is a parent, or about to become one, will appreciate this incredibly loving, heartfelt look at "the glory and the dream" of early childhood.
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(This volume’s forty-three chronologically arranged poems,...)
This volume’s forty-three chronologically arranged poems, from January to June 1975, throw us into the “abandoned landscape” of the poet’s psyche. Leaving his wife and child behind, he becomes “angry Ahab,” drowning in “an ocean of cow-filled solitude” as he tacks along the highway’s cement sea lanes in quest of leviathans, his “eyes blurred by salty tears,” lamenting that only his poems have survived his transformation.
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(Tiffany Shade, a volume of fifty-one chronologically arra...)
Tiffany Shade, a volume of fifty-one chronologically arranged pieces composed by Louis Daniel Brodsky from the fall of 1973 to the spring of 1974, explores the poetic nature of life’s routines. With his detailed, imagistic depiction of both daily activities (making business trips, living in a small Midwestern town, settling into married life) and mystical events (contemplating imminent parenthood, celebrating holidays and birthdays), Brodsky restores the love, humor, beauty, wonder, and appreciation for living so often overlooked in the rush of day-to-day existence.
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(Poetry. Beginning on January 21, 2002, and concluding on ...)
Poetry. Beginning on January 21, 2002, and concluding on April 18, 2002, SHADOW WAR, VOLUME THREE resumes Louis Daniel Brodsky's chronicle of America's war on terrorism. In forty-one poems, he records the aftershocks created by the September 11th devastations of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Brodsky follows President Bush's shift in emphasis, away from Afghanistan and toward the next theater of war: the "Axis of Evil" -Iran, North Korea, and especially, Iraq, while our leaders hope to initiate a "regime change" within a short time. Yet, the focus remains in the Mideast, on the escalating attacks and retaliations raging between Palestinians and Israelis--acts only fueling the Muslim world's hatred of the U.S. Many of the poems depict the frequent suicide bombings and their bloody aftermaths, as the battle against terrorism now seems destined towards indeterminacy. Brodsky is the author of fifty-one volumes of poetry and twenty-two volumes of prose.
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(Poetry. Beginning less than two months after the attacks ...)
Poetry. Beginning less than two months after the attacks of 9/11, the forty-seven poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky's SHADOW WAR, VOLUME TWO, depict the United States in crisis. There is a general suspicion that al-Qa'eda is behind the crash of an American Airlines flight in Queens and Richard Reed's (a.k.a. the "Shoe Bomber") attempt to blow up another, from Paris to Miami, and the fact that Osama bin Laden still can't be found makes this paranoia all the more credible. Poems range from the case of traitor John Walker Lindh, an American Taliban fighter, to President Bush's choking on a pretzel, underscoring the nationwide feeling of precariousness. Brodsky is the author of fifty-one volumes of poetry and twenty-two volumes of prose.
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( During thirty years of literary collecting, Louis Danie...)
During thirty years of literary collecting, Louis Daniel Brodsky has acquired some of the most important source materials on the life and work of William Faulkner anywhere available. Indeed, the Brodsky Collection, now owned by Southeast Missouri State University, has been characterized by Robert Penn Warren as "stupendous." In William Faulkner, Life Glimpses, Brodsky mines this storehouse of previously unpublished material, using interviews, letters, speeches, movie scripts, and notes to enrich our understanding of this well-known Southern writer. The result is a highly readable biography that is thematic and episodic rather than chronological in its organization. Building on specific documents in the collection, Brodsky opens new windows on the parallel development of Faulkner's literary career and personal life. New material on the early poems ''Elder Watson in Heaven" and "Pregnancy" gives insight into Faulkner's developing literary and personal aesthetics during the 1920s and 1930s. Faulkner's metamorphosis from self-doubting, isolated artist to confident public spokesman during the 1940s and 1950s forms the central core of the study. Through previously unavailable screenplays written for Warner Bros. during World War II and an interview with Faulkner's fellow screenwriter Albert I. "Buzz" Bezzerides, Brodsky charts the decline in Faulkner's literary output and his corresponding discovery of a public voice. He shows how Faulkner's astonishingly positive 1950 Nobel Prize acceptance speech was not a sudden about-face from the bleak outlook that had produced The Sound and the Fury. Rather, Faulkner's years in Hollywood showed him that words, even screenplays, could shape the way people think and react. Faulkner's lifelong quest for a "manly" role ended, Brodsky declares, when he took up the mantle of public spokesmanship. In the final chapter, a revealing interview with Faulkner's granddaughter, Victoria Fielden Johnson, paints an insider's portrait of life at the Faulkner home, Rowan Oak. A copy of Faulkner's recipe for curing pork, included in the appendix, emphasizes his longterm struggle to produce fine literature while supplying the everyday needs of a large family. These and other materials, previously unavailable to scholars and the reading public, will broaden and enrich our understanding of one of America's most celebrated writers.
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(As the first book of a complete cycle tracing one man's r...)
As the first book of a complete cycle tracing one man's relationship with the South, volume one of this trilogy begins with the images captured by an enthusiastic, idealistic Northern outlander during his treks to the region immortalized by Faulkner -- Oxford, Mississippi.
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(Poetry. Louis Daniel Brodsky's SHADOW WAR, VOLUME FIVE be...)
Poetry. Louis Daniel Brodsky's SHADOW WAR, VOLUME FIVE begins on June 17, 2002 and concludes with an epilogue written the day after the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, thus bringing the series to closure. The initial focus of this book is on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as President Bush's diplomatic pressure on both sides to find a solution. Gradually, the administration's call for war against Iraq grows louder. Several poems deal with Americans' paranoia about terrorism in their homeland, especially around Independence Day and Labor Day. The final poems concentrate on how America honors those who died at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, providing a poignant and sober account of the events surrounding September 11, 2002. The epilogue looks forward to a time "Untormented by the shadow of war, born of hope, peace." Brodsky is the author of fifty-one volumes of poetry and twenty-two volumes of prose.
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(The Foul Rag-and-Bone Shop is a volume of twenty-nine poe...)
The Foul Rag-and-Bone Shop is a volume of twenty-nine poems written over a five-year span by Louis Daniel Brodsky. The book, conceived in 1967 but expanded in 1969, is the only complete poetry manuscript that the author produced from mid-1967 to August 1971, and its highly symbolic, imagistic pieces reflect his artistic development during that time, including influences from the social and political climates he observed on the East and West Coasts as well as in the Midwest.
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(Trip to Tipton and Other Compulsions, a volume of sixty-e...)
Trip to Tipton and Other Compulsions, a volume of sixty-eight poems written by Louis Daniel Brodsky during 1972 and 1973, records the unfolding events from one year of the author’s life, capturing special highlights (a trip to Europe with his wife, the celebration of their second wedding anniversary, their mystical visits to Wisconsin and Illinois) as well as daily routines (his first experiences as an outlet-store manager and as a traveling salesman, his journeys to St. Louis and to small Midwestern towns, his homelife in Farmington, Missouri), revealing his struggle to incorporate the idealistic, romantic world of the artist into his realistic, pragmatic existence as a young, newly married businessman.
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(Book by Brodsky, Louis Daniel, Vandermolen, Sheri L.)
Book by Brodsky, Louis Daniel, Vandermolen, Sheri L.
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("The Talking Machine" and Other Poems, a volume of fifty-...)
"The Talking Machine" and Other Poems, a volume of fifty-three chronologically arranged pieces composed by Louis Daniel Brodsky, spans the first eight months of 1973, providing startlingly clear glimpses into the author’s personal life, such as on “quiet Sundays . . . spent outside of time” with his wife, friends, and family, as well as his “6 a.m. to 9 p.m. existence” as a young salesman, including sharp details from his frequent business trips to small Midwestern outposts.
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(These poems follow the first year of a relationship betwe...)
These poems follow the first year of a relationship between two middle-aged lovers finding each other after surviving the travails of divorce.
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(Poetry. In the fifty poems of SHADOW WAR, VOLUME ONE, Lou...)
Poetry. In the fifty poems of SHADOW WAR, VOLUME ONE, Louis Daniel Brodsky chronicles the events of September 11, 2001 and the seven and a half weeks that followed, proclaiming both rallying cries and protestations. Free of political agenda, Brodsky immerses us in a chaos of conflicting attitudes and emotions. While many of the poems express patriotic indignation toward America's enemies, some show anger with America itself--its complacency, materialism, and insularity. A number of poems also evoke genuine ecumenical sentiments, desiring for people of all faiths to unite, while others are cynical, irreverent, ironic, and absurd. We emerge from this diversity with a provocative and compelling portrait of perhaps the most confusing, yet reflective time America has ever experienced. Brodsky is the author of fifty-one volumes of poetry and twenty-two volumes of prose.
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(This book, dealing with Holocaust victims, refugees, seco...)
This book, dealing with Holocaust victims, refugees, second-generation "survivors," and today's family, is narrated by an American Jewish poet, son of neither victims nor survivors, who does not presume to speak for the dead but rather to the living -- one human plea for universal peace.
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(Taking the Back Road Home is a volume of fifty-one poems ...)
Taking the Back Road Home is a volume of fifty-one poems written by Louis Daniel Brodsky during 1971 and 1972. Chronologically arranged, the book’s pieces detail the life of a poet, capturing his day-to-day encounters with friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers as well as his more mystical experiences with his wife and with nature. The poems absorb the reader into the writer’s existence and grant the imagination free rein within his timeless, imagistic world.
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(Trilogy: A Birth Cycle, a volume of eighteen chronologica...)
Trilogy: A Birth Cycle, a volume of eighteen chronologically arranged pieces composed by Louis Daniel Brodsky from November 1973 to May 1974, is a tender chronicle of one couple’s first experiences with conception, pregnancy, and childbirth, gently exploring their fears, hopes, and joys as they face impending parenthood.
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(The Eleventh Lost Tribe, Brodsky's fourth book of poems d...)
The Eleventh Lost Tribe, Brodsky's fourth book of poems devoted to the Holocaust, asks the reader to confront the dispossessed lives of ghetto dwellers, death-camp survivors, Jews prescient or desperate enough to have fled Europe prior to being captured and slaughtered, and, finally, children of the Shoah's refugees or orphans of those who perished in it. Exposing the gritty existence of characters Brodsky has resurrected from his imagination, the book's four sections implore the reader to follow on a quest not so much for historical fact as emotional truth, in search of a better understanding of our incredulity and outrage over the Holocaust. Although no sane design can be applied to the irrationality of the German wartime psyche, Brodsky has given order to the narrative formed by these characters, grouping them by their proximity to the actual smells and sounds, obscenity and corruption of death. While no one can know the depths of horror experienced by those who were about to inhale the gas or be incinerated in the ovens or shot at point-blank range, Brodsky suggests that those who survived carry just as devastating and palpable an insight into death for having to live with their memories. This book brings those memories to life through the eyes of camp survivors, refugees, and their children, revealing scars so deep that nothing can alleviate their debilitating pain, ultimately rendering these victims the waking, walking dead, the wandering ghosts from another lost tribe -- the fated eleventh -- comprising these misbegotten spirits, those who died, and all of us now assimilated into the aftermath of the Holocaust.
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(The forty-six poems in this book, composed from December ...)
The forty-six poems in this book, composed from December 1975 to March 1976, reveal the “fractured, disoriented soul” the poet became during his years as a factory manager, when frequent business travel forced him to “navigate the unmapped reaches of Catalepsy” and “pray for peace, guidance, delivery,” leading him home, “after an eon on the road,” to his beloved wife and child.
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(Louis Daniel Brodsky composed the forty-one poems in Poin...)
Louis Daniel Brodsky composed the forty-one poems in Point of Americas II during the spring and summer of 1974. The first and last sections of the book detail his visits to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing the relaxed mind’s reflections on walking the beach, watching the sun set or storm clouds gather, and observing sunbathers, boaters, and the lush surroundings, all in contrast to the middle section’s study of Midwestern life as seen by a poet content to spend weekdays camouflaged as a plant manager and Sunday mornings surveying simple activities at home or around the town square.
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(Presenting fifty startling poems -- alternating between i...)
Presenting fifty startling poems -- alternating between its authors, a Jew and a Christian -- this volume possesses a haunting poignancy unlike any other book of Holocaust poetry.
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(Leaky Tubs trots out a variety of societal misfits who ri...)
Leaky Tubs trots out a variety of societal misfits who rise to the surface of Brodsky's toxic satire, exhibiting everything from compulsive toilet routines to rage brought on by a surfeit of Thanksgiving turkey. The reader meets, firsthand, an eighty-three-year-old ersatz Mr. Universe, who ogles female weightlifters; two born losers who see themselves as evolutionary throwbacks to their simian ancestors; a crematory operator who misfires but redeems himself with an eleventh-hour substitution; a writer who strains so hard to break his block that he leaves his mark in a different medium; a fruitful-but-unmultiplying wino who seduces a teenage waitress at "Vito's Little Sicily," only to end up under the two-jug influence of impotence; and a desperate commuter who rolls in on fumes to a gas station, wrangles with a broken pump, and pushes a vindictive attendant too far.
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(Poetry. Starting on April 22, 2002, and concluding on Jun...)
Poetry. Starting on April 22, 2002, and concluding on June 16, 2002, Louis Daniel Brodsky's SHADOW WAR, VOLUME FOUR traces the primary sources of terrorism that erupted in America on September 11: Israel, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. These poems describe, in bold detail, the desperation of Palestinians and Israelis; the depths of radical depravity demonstrated by the suicide bombers; the specter of nuclear war looming; and the fledgling government of Afghanistan. Other poems are set in the U.S.: Ground Zero workers finally complete their grim ordeal of exhumation; the Bush Administration warning that future terrorist strikes are inevitable and proposes creating the Department of Homeland Security; and Washington prepares to strengthen its infrastructure. As in the preceding three volumes of Shadow War, Brodsky writes compelling poetic narratives about the worldwide fight for stability and order in a climate of spreading terrorism. Brodsky is the author of fifty-one volumes of poetry and twenty-two volumes of prose.
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Brodsky, Louis Daniel was born on April 17, 1941 in St. Louis.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1963. Master of Arts, Washington University, 1967. Master of Arts, San Francisco State University, 1968.
(Trip to Tipton and Other Compulsions, a volume of sixty-e...)
(With this book’s forty-four chronologically arranged poem...)
(This tender book chronicles the aspirations of a hopeful ...)
(This sequel to Forever, for Now follows the second year o...)
(The forty-six poems in this book, composed from December ...)
(The Eleventh Lost Tribe, Brodsky's fourth book of poems d...)
(In the concluding volume of Louis Daniel Brodsky's narrat...)
(Trilogy: A Birth Cycle, a volume of eighteen chronologica...)
(This sampler, divided into six sections, each containing ...)
(In the second volume of Louis Daniel Brodsky's narrative ...)
(This book, dealing with Holocaust victims, refugees, seco...)
(As the first book of a complete cycle tracing one man's r...)
("The Talking Machine" and Other Poems, a volume of fifty-...)
(Leaky Tubs trots out a variety of societal misfits who ri...)
(The second volume in Louis Daniel Brodsky's Complete Poem...)
(Tiffany Shade, a volume of fifty-one chronologically arra...)
( During thirty years of literary collecting, Louis Danie...)
(Presenting fifty startling poems -- alternating between i...)
(This volume of seventeen poems introduces us to a new spe...)
(This volume’s forty-three chronologically arranged poems,...)
(These poems follow the first year of a relationship betwe...)
(Five Facets of Myself, Louis Daniel Brodsky’s first book ...)
(The Foul Rag-and-Bone Shop is a volume of twenty-nine poe...)
(Louis Daniel Brodsky composed the forty-one poems in Poin...)
(The Easy Philosopher is a volume comprising forty-one poe...)
(Taking the Back Road Home is a volume of fifty-one poems ...)
(Book by Brodsky, Louis Daniel, Vandermolen, Sheri L.)
(Poetry. Beginning on January 21, 2002, and concluding on ...)
(Poetry. Beginning less than two months after the attacks ...)
(Poetry. Louis Daniel Brodsky's SHADOW WAR, VOLUME FIVE be...)
(Poetry. In the fifty poems of SHADOW WAR, VOLUME ONE, Lou...)
(Poetry. Starting on April 22, 2002, and concluding on Jun...)
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