false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176867429m/661735.jpg 661736 2 With <i>Trouble in Mind,</i> 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 &#8220;at the border of her own allegory,&#8221; Brock-Broido searches for a lexicon adequate to the extremities of experience&#8211;a quest that is as capricious as it is uncompromising. In the process, she reveals, unsparingly, things as they are. In &#8220;Pamphlet on Ravening&#8221; she recalls, &#8220;I was a hunger artist once, as well. / My bones had shone. / I had had rapture on my side.&#8221;<i> </i>The book<i> </i>is 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.<br><br><i>Trouble in Mind</i> 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: &#8220;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.&#8221; Even trouble, in Brock-Broido&#8217;s idiom, becomes something resplendent.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i> 647807 2004 Trouble in Mind: Poems total:88|5:47|4:18|3:16|2:7|1:0| 88 369 115 5 661736 0375710221 9780375710223 67 5 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176867430m/661736.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/661736.Trouble_in_Mind_Poems 2 0 false Mon Aug 25 06:32:58 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 06:38:33 -0700 2008 However, in the five sections, I felt as if stumbling on a well-written diary. 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