{"product_id":"9781641773324","title":"Some Problems with Autobiography","description":"Author: Brian Brodeur\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781641773324\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Encounter Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 30 May 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 120\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSome Problems with Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e, Brian Brodeur's fourth collection, grapples with the porous and fragmentary nature of midwestern American identity in poems that range across prosodic forms and hybrid genres. By turns self-mocking, meditative, and tragi-comic, this book explores the perils of digital technologies, ecological uncertainties, and the inadequacy of language to convey our collective distress, asking how much pleasure and hardship the human heart can bear. Brodeur's narrative poems feature a dramatis personae rare in contemporary poetry, including a Syrian refugee enrolled in a writing workshop, the wife of an accused serial killer shopping defense lawyers, a horny psychoanalyst confessing a dream, and a carpenter working for the Department of Education during New York City's first lockdown. From dramatic-monologue sonnets and narrative sestinas to discursive lyrics cast in Rubiyt stanzas and Alcaic strophes,\u003ci\u003eSome Problems with Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003ebrings ancient modes into startlingly contemporary contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46836299727006,"sku":"ADS-9781641773324","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781641773324.jpg?v=1778737467","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781641773324","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}