Lucie Brock-Broido’s lines are sinuous thinking. Not stream-of-consciousness but deliberate explorations full of surprising twists and uncanny new meanings. Her poems are full of mystery emerging from her use of language becoming a “felt” form of understanding. “A Guide to the Writer’s Life” is a great example of her work.
Lucie Brock-Broido was the author of Trouble in Mind (2004), The Master Letters (1995), and A Hunger (1988). She received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a Guggenheim fellowship. She was Director of Poetry at Columbia University from 1993 until her death in 2018.