My Brother is Getting Arrested Again (Pitt Poetry Series) - Softcover

Fried, Daisy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822959194 ISBN 13: 9780822959199

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006

Synopsis

My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again celebrates the contradictions and quandaries of contemporary American life. These subversive, frequently self-mocking narrative poems are by turns funny and serious, book-smart and street-smart, lyrical and colloquial. Set in Philadelphia, Paris and New Jersey, the poems are at ease with sex happiness and sex trouble, girl-talk and grownup married life, genre parody and antiwar politics, family warfare and family love. Unsentimental but full of emotion, Daisy Fried's new collection, a finalist for the 2005 James Laughlin Prize, is unforgettable.

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From the Back Cover:

"Daisy Fried's poetry is fluid and quicksilver as life seen close up. Here is an original voice: provocative, poignant, and often very funny." --Joyce Carol Oates

"Lyrical, pertinent, compelling, Daisy Fried's new book is firmly centered in urban American life, a center the poet uses to contemplate nothing less than the contemporary human condition. No poem is less than specific, creating its own narrative implying much beyond its margins, yet each is self-contained in elegant structure. This is a book about political awakening in the largest sense, where wit convinces in the place of dogma." --Marilyn Hacker

"Daisy Fried does the gum-cracking teen who dominated your last train ride with her cell phone, she does the desolate young women who have tried on lives and found they won't come off, she does the fortyish philosopher. She turns on her characters and on herself an objectivity at once brilliant and kind, shrewd and amused. Streetwise and unembarrassed and broken-hearted, her poems bring us a world so vivid and dense we would be glad for that gift alone: but then she lifts it for us, she makes it sing." --James Richardson

About the Author:

Daisy Fried is the author of She Didn't Mean to Do It, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. She has also received the Cohen Award for poetry from Ploughshares, a Pushcart Prize, and the Leeway Award for Excellence in poetry. Fried has been a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University and a Pew Fellow in poetry. Currently the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence at Smith College, she lives in Northampton, MA, and Philadelphia.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0822959194
• ISBN 13: 9780822959199
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80