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Lucy Brock-Broido

  • “I was not ready for your form to be cold / Ever. Even in life / You did not inhabit, necessarily, a form, / But a mind of / Rarer liquid element.”

    • Lucy Brock-Broido,
    • "Periodic Table of Ethereal Elements," in Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr, eds., American Women Poets in the 21st Century ()

  • “I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.”

    • Lucy Brock-Broido,
    • "Myself a Kangaroo Among the Beauties," in Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr, eds., American Women Poets in the 21st Century ()

Lucy Brock-Broido, U.S. poet

(1956)