“After the Grand Perhaps” After vespers, after the first snow has fallen to its squalls, after New Wave, after the anorexics have curled into their geometric forms, after the man with the apparition in his one bad eye has done… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
Something I have "authority" on is animal rights. If I were not already so deep into the path I've taken, deep in the woods,… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
At the heart of my life is the idea that I don't ever want anything to ever change. That's the basic tenet. — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
“From 'Periodic Table of Elements': A girl ago, a girlhood gone like a phial of ether | Thrown on fire--just | A little jump… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
I think the reason I've published so few books is that I have a pretty high expectation of self-reinvention between books and I would… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
“There she was, the mother of me, like a lit plinth, Heavenly, though I was reared to find this kind Of visitation impractical; she… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption. — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me. — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
I am fascinated with criminal law because it is as rigorous as a poem and because it is based on what has been written… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
Let me just say that the politics that I have are never the politics of poetics. I am not interested in politics. Politically, I… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
I think American is very democratic in allowing different hues of language and parts of speech to commingle. William Logan once wrote that I… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
