Lucie Brock-Broido
Lucie Brock-Broido (born 22 May 1956 in Pittsburgh, PA) is the author of four collections of poetry. She has received many honors, including the Witter-Bynner prize of Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, the Harvard-Danforth Award for Distinction in Teaching, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from American Poetry Review, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a Guggenheim fellowship. She was described as an Elliptical Poet by critic Stephen Burt.[citation needed]
A graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, Brock-Broido is currently Director of Poetry in the Writing Division at Columbia University School of the Arts in New York City.[citation needed]
She divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and New York City.[citation needed]
Her long narrative poem "Jessica from the Well" tells the story of Jessica McClure being trapped in a well from McClure's point of view, describing her as having a basic understanding of the physical and mythic elements of her situation. It has been reprinted numerous times.[1]
Awards and honors
- 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry) shortlist for Stay, Illusion[2][3]
Bibliography
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Collections
- Brock-Broido, Lucie (1988). A hunger. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
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- Stay, Illusion (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013)
List of poems
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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| Noctuary | 2013 | Brock-Broido, Lucie (April 15, 2013). "Noctuary". The New Yorker. 89 (9): 36–37. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
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Critical studies and reviews of Brock-Broido's work
- Chiasson, Dan (October 28, 2013). "The ghost writer : Lucie Brock-Broido's "Stay, Illusion"". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 89 (34): 78–79.
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References
- ^ Brock-Broido, Lucie (1988). "Jessica, from the Well". A Hunger. New York: Knopf. ISBN 9780394563374.
- ^ Kirsten Reach (January 14, 2014). "NBCC finalists announced". Melville House Publishing. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
- ^ "Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013". National Book Critics Circle. January 14, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
External links
- Random House, The Borzoi Reader [1]
- "Little Industry of Ghosts" by Lucie Brock-Broido in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (26.1)
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