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-BroidoI find it odd that, in real life people think I am funny but no one ever suspects that on the page! Personally, I think some of my work is a riot! I crack myself up, but I know that the poems seem so relentlessly dark.
Lucie Brock-BroidoI wanted many of the poems to have long legs. At first I was calling them clothespin poems, before I knew what I was doing. The lines seem pulled on either end, tight and taut against the wind.
Lucie Brock-Broido