Freak Wonder

Collected Poems

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

297 kr

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The landmark Collected Poems of Jim Brodey—downtown poet, rock critic, “voracious post-lysergic romantic,” and fixture of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture in New York City and beyond.Although his work has fallen into relative obscurity since his death in 1993, the poet Jim Brodey was friends with everyone in his day: from Duane Allman and The Band to Frank O'Hara and Eve Babitz. He was known as an otherworldly messenger, who, Eileen Myles notes, “writes with a rich, disturbing kind of balance.” Bringing together poems from the 1950s to his death from AIDS in 1993, Freak Wonder: The Collected Poems of Jim Brodey is the definitive volume of Brodey’s work, a collection cut through with the surreal rock-and-roll resonances of sex, drugs, and poetics at the margins of American culture.

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Utgivningsdatum:2027-05-06
Mått:152 x 228 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:416
Förlag:Nightboat Books
ISBN:9781643623320

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Poet and rock music critic Jim Brodey was born in Brooklyn in 1942. A literary figure in 1960s New York City, he was friends with many experimental poets, artists, and musicians. He was the author of eight poetry collections, including Heart of the Breath: Poems 1979-1992 (1996), Judyism (1980), Piranha Yoga (1977), Blues of the Egyptian Kings (1975), and Identikit (1967). He also published poems in The Paris Review, C: A Journal of Poetry, The World, 432 Review, and his own little magazine, Clothesline. He died in 1993 in San Francisco.

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“Jim was like this messenger of chaos. He had this notion of poetry as performance way ahead of his time. He was fabulous.”—Eileen Myles“[Brodey’s] poetry is as full of the warp and woof of relentless aesthetic experimentation as it is the ecstasy and agony of his vivid, too-brief life."—Nick Sturm, Poetry Foundation