Forever, for Now: Poems for a Later Love - Softcover

Louis Daniel Brodsky

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1877770299 ISBN 13: 9781877770296

Publisher: Time Being Books, 1991

Synopsis

These poems follow the first year of a relationship between two middle-aged lovers finding each other after surviving the travails of divorce.

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About the Author:

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.

Review:

In Forever for Now, Mississippi River poet Louis Daniel Brodsky has written a Huckleberry Finn of latter-day love. Cutting loose from worlds that have gone dismally wrong -- "desperate, desolate, defunct marriages" -- the protagonist and his beloved Janie hide from the world aboard a raft for two, drifting towards self-enfranchisement and love....What love's skepticism opens for this poet is his participation in the human experience...in a recurring history that flows like the river. ---- Sanford Budick, founding director of the Center for Literary Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

About this edition

• Publisher: Time Being Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 1877770299
• ISBN 13: 9781877770296
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 103