{"product_id":"trouble-in-mind-9780375710223","title":"Trouble in Mind","description":"With \u003ci\u003eTrouble in Mind, \u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe book\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrouble in Mind\u003c\/i\u003e 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-Broido's idiom, becomes something resplendent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/04\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375710223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.22w x 0.27d","brand":"Lucie Brock-Broido","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44723167199413,"sku":"9780375710223","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_8838f7ba-259e-4dbc-831d-73df1a357bc5.jpg?v=1729006896","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/trouble-in-mind-9780375710223","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}