Four and Twenty Blackbirds Soaring reconfirms my belief that Louis Daniel Brodsky is one of the most exciting poets writing in America today. His careful attention to concrete detail, his rich and creative imagination, his impressive powers of narration and characterization, and, above all, his daring and insightful use of metaphor combine to place him in the first rank of contemporary poets.
Robert W. Hamblin,
Poetry Editor, Aethlon
Brodsky is the author of fifty-five 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.