{"product_id":"trouble-in-mind-0375710221","title":"Trouble in Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0375710221\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Brock-Broido, Lucie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith Trouble in Mind, her long-awaited third collection, Lucie Brock-Broido has written her most exceptional poems to date. There is a new clarity to her work, a disquieting transparency, even in the midst of the wild thickets of language for which she is known. A poet at the border of her own allegory, Brock-Broido searches for a lexicon adequate to the extremities of experience-a quest that is as capricious as it is uncompromising. In the process, she reveals, unsparingly, things as they are. In Pamphlet on Ravening she recalls, I was a hunger artist once, as well. \/ My bones had shone. \/ I had had rapture on my side.The bookis laced with sequences: haunted, odd self-portraits; a succession of poems provoked by discarded titles by Wallace Stevens; an intermittent series of fractured and beguiling lyrics that she variously refers to as fragments, leaflets, and apologues.Trouble in Mind is a book that astonishes us afresh at the agility and the uncanny will of language, which Brock-Broido is not afraid to follow where it may lead her: That the name of bliss is only in the diminishing \/ (As far as possible) of pain. That I had quit \/ The quiet velvet cult of it, \/ Yet trouble came. Even trouble, in Brock-Broidos idiom, becomes something resplendent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51824508109088,"sku":"NEW0375710221","price":20.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/816CmIWpoaL.jpg?v=1781213332","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/trouble-in-mind-0375710221","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}