Louis Daniel Brodsky
Louis Daniel Brodsky (born April 17, 1941) is an American poet.
Life
Louis Daniel Brodsky was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1941, where he attended St. Louis Country Day School. After earning a B.A., magna cum laude, at Yale University in 1963, he received an M.A. in English from Washington University in 1967 and an M.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University the following year.
From 1968 to 1987, while continuing to write poetry, he assisted in managing a 350-person men's clothing factory in Farmington, Missouri, and started one of the Midwest's first factory-outlet apparel chains. From 1980 to 1991, he taught English and creative writing at Mineral Area Junior College, in nearby Flat River. Since 1987, he has lived in St. Louis and devoted himself to composing poems. He has a daughter and a son.
Biography
Brodsky is the author of fifty-three volumes of poetry (five of which have been published in French by Éditions Gallimard) and twenty-three volumes of prose, including nine books of scholarship on William Faulkner and seven books of short fictions. His poems and essays have appeared in Harper's, The Faulkner Review, Southern Review, Texas Quarterly, National Forum, American Scholar, Studies in Bibliography, Kansas Quarterly, Ball State University's Forum, Cimarron Review, and Literary Review, as well as in Ariel, Acumen, Orbis, New Welsh Review, Dalhousie Review, and other journals. His work has also been printed in five editions of the Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry.
In 2004, Brodsky’s You Can't Go Back, Exactly won the award for best book of poetry, presented by the Center for Great Lakes Culture, at Michigan State University.
Bibliography
Poetry (all published by Time Being Books, St. Louis, MO):
- Four and Twenty Blackbirds Soaring (1989)
- The Thorough Earth (1989)
- Mississippi Vistas: Volume One of A Mississippi Trilogy (1990)
- Falling from Heaven: Holocaust Poems of a Jew and a Gentile (co-written by William Heyen) (1991)
- Forever, for Now: Poems for a Later Love (1991)
- A Gleam in the Eye: Poems for a First Baby (1992)
- Mistress Mississippi: Volume Three of A Mississippi Trilogy (1992)
- The Capital Café: Poems of Redneck, U.S.A. (1993)
- Gestapo Crows: Holocaust Poems (1993)
- Disappearing in Mississippi Latitudes: Volume Two of A Mississippi Trilogy (1994)
- "A Hard Coming of It" and Other Poems (1995)
- The Easy Philosopher (1995)
- Five Facets of Myself (1995)
- The Foul Rag-and-Bone Shop (1995)
- Paper-Whites for Lady Jane: Poems of a Midlife Love Affair (1995)
- The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky: Volume One, 1963-1967 (1996)
- Points in Time (1996)
- "The Talking Machine" and Other Poems (1997)
- Three Early Books of Poems by Louis Daniel Brodsky, 1967-1969: The Easy Philosopher, "A Hard Coming of It" and Other Poems, and The Foul Rag-and-Bone Shop (1997)
- Tiffany Shade (1997)
- Trip to Tipton and Other Compulsions (1997)
- The Eleventh Lost Tribe: Poems of the Holocaust (1998)
- Monday's Child (1998)
- Point of Americas II (1998)
- Toward the Torah, Soaring: Poems of the Renascence of Faith (1998)
- Trilogy: A Birth Cycle (1998)
- Cold Companionable Streams (1999)
- Preparing for Incarnations (1999)
- Preparing for Incarnations (Revised, expanded edition) (1999)
- The Kingdom of Gewgaw (2000)
- Stranded in the Land of Transients (2000)
- Taking the Back Road Home (2000)
- Voice Within the Void: Poems of Homo supinus (2000)
- Birds in Passage (2001)
- Résumé of a Scrapegoat (2001)
- The Uncelebrated Ceremony of Pants-Factory Fatso (2001)
- The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky: Volume Two, 1967-1976 (2002)
- La Preciosa (2002)
- You Can't Go Back, Exactly (Revised, expanded edition) (2003)
- Shadow War: A Poetic Chronicle of September 11 and Beyond, Vols. 1-5 (2004)
- The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky: Volume Three, 1976-1980 (2005)
- Peddler on the Road: Days in the Life of Willy Sypher (2005)
- Combing Florida's Shores: Poems of Two Lifetimes (2006)
Short Fictions (all published by Time Being Books, St. Louis, MO):
- Catchin' the Drift O' the Draft (1999)
- This Here's a Merica (1999)
- Yellow Bricks (1999)
- Leaky Tubs (2001)
- Nuts to You! (2004)
- Rated Xmas (2004)
- Pigskinizations (2005)