Louis Daniel Brodsky
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, short story writer, and Faulkner
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scholar.
Life
Brodsky was born in St. Louis, MissouriSt. Louis, Missouri
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, in 1941, where he attended St. Louis Country Day School
Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School
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. After earning a B.A.
Bachelor of Arts
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, magna cum laude
Latin honors
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, at Yale University
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in 1963, he received an M.A.
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
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in English from Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis
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in 1967 and an M.A. in creative writing
Creative writing
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from San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University
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the following year.
From 1968 to 1987, while continuing to write poetry
Poetry
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, he assisted in managing a 350-person men's clothing factory in Farmington, Missouri
Farmington, Missouri
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owned by his father's company, and assisted in starting one of the Midwest's
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first factory-outlet
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apparel chains, also owned by his father's company. From 1980 to 1991, he taught English and creative writing, part time, at Mineral Area College
Mineral Area College
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, in nearby Flat River. Since 1987, he has lived in St. Louis and devoted himself to composing poems. He has a daughter, Trilogy, and a son, Troika.
Work
Brodsky is the author of seventy-one volumes of poetry (five of which have been published in French by Éditions GallimardÉditions Gallimard
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) and twenty-five volumes of prose, including nine books of scholarship on William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career...
and nine books of short fiction. His poems and essays have appeared in Harper's Magazine
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, The Faulkner Journal, The Southern Review, The American Scholar
The American Scholar
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, Studies in Bibliography, and other journals. His work has also been printed in five editions of the annual Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry.
In 2004, Brodsky’s You Can't Go Back, Exactly won the award for best book of poetry, presented by The Center for Great Lakes Culture, at Michigan State University
Michigan State University
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.
You can learn more about Louis Daniel Brodsky and read his most recent work by visiting his web site at: http://www.louisdanielbrodsky.com
Poetry
(all published by Time Being Books, St. Louis, MO):- Five Facets of Myself (1967)* (1995)
- The Easy Philosopher (1967)* (1995)
- A Hard Coming of It and Other Poems (1967)* (1995)
- The Foul Rag-and-Bone Shop (1967)* (1969, exp.)* (1995, exp.)
- Points in Time (1971)* (1995) (1996)
- Taking the Back Road Home (1972)* (1997) (2000)
- Trip to Tipton and Other Compulsions (1973)* (1997)
- The Talking Machine and Other Poems (1974)* (1997)
- Tiffany Shade (1974)* (1997)
- Trilogy: A Birth Cycle (1974) (1998)
- Cold Companionable Streams (1975)* (1999)
- Monday's Child (1975) (1998)
- Preparing for Incarnations (1975)* (1976, exp.) (1999) (1999, exp.)
- The Kingdom of Gewgaw (1976) (2000)
- Point of Americas II (1976) (1998)
- La Preciosa (1977) (2001)
- Stranded in the Land of Transients (1978) (2000)
- The Uncelebrated Ceremony of Pants-Factory Fatso (1978) (2001)
- Birds in Passage (1980) (2001)
- Résumé of a Scrapegoat (1980) (2001)
- Mississippi Vistas: Volume One of A Mississippi Trilogy(1983) (1990)
- You Can't Go Back, Exactly (1988, two eds.) (1989) (2003, exp.)
- The Thorough Earth (1989)
- Four and Twenty Blackbirds Soaring (1989)
- Falling from Heaven: Holocaust Poems of a Jew and a Gentile (with William Heyen) (1991)
- Forever, for Now: Poems for a Later Love (1991)
- Mistress Mississippi: Volume Three of A Mississippi Trilogy (1992)
- A Gleam in the Eye: Volume One of The Seasons of Youth (1992) (2009)
- Gestapo Crows: Holocaust Poems (1992)
- The Third Year's a Charm: Later-Love Poems (1993)*
- The Capital Café: Poems of Redneck, U.S.A. (1993)
- Disappearing in Mississippi Latitudes: Volume Two of A Mississippi Trilogy (1994)
- Variations on a Love Theme: Poems for Janie (1995)*
- A Mississippi Trilogy: A Poetic Saga of the South (1995)*
- Paper-Whites for Lady Jane: Poems of a Midlife Love Affair (1995)
- The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky: Volume One, 1963-1967 (edited by Sheri L. Vandermolen) (1996)
- Three Early Books of Poems by Louis Daniel Brodsky, 1967-1969: The Easy Philosopher, A Hard Coming of It and Other Poems, and The Foul Rag-and-Bone Shop (edited by Sheri L. Vandermolen)(1997)
- The Eleventh Lost Tribe: Poems of the Holocaust (1998)
- Toward the Torah, Soaring: Poems of the Renascence of Faith (1998)
- Voice Within the Void: Poems of Homo supinus (2000)
- The Swastika Clock: Endlösung Poems (2000)*
- Rabbi Auschwitz: Poems Touching the Shoah (2000)* (2009)
- Shadow War: A Poetic Chronicle of September 11 and Beyond, Volume One (2001) (2004)
- The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky: Volume Two, 1967-1976 (edited by Sheri L. Vandermolen) (2002)
- Shadow War: A Poetic Chronicle of September 11 and Beyond, Volume Two (2002) (2004)
- Shadow War: A Poetic Chronicle of September 11 and Beyond, Volume Three (2002) (2004)
- Shadow War: A Poetic Chronicle of September 11 and Beyond, Volume Four (2002) (2004)
- Shadow War: A Poetic Chronicle of September 11 and Beyond, Volume Five (2002) (2004)
- Regime Change: Poems of America's Showdown with Iraq, Volume One (2002)*
- Heavenward (2003)*
- Regime Change: Poems of America's Showdown with Iraq, Volume Two (2003)*
- Regime Change: Poems of America's Showdown with Iraq, Volume Three (2003)*
- The Location of the Unknown: Shoah Poems (2004)*
- The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky: Volume Three, 1976-1980 (edited by Sheri L. Vandermolen) (2005)
- Peddler on the Road: Days in the Life of Willy Sypher (2005)
- Combing Florida's Shores: Poems of Two Lifetimes (2006)
- Showdown With a Cactus: Poems Chronicling the Prickly Struggle Between the Forces of Dubya-ness and Enlightenment, 2003-2006 (2006)
- A Transcendental Almanac: Poems of Nature (2006)
- Once upon a Small-Town Time: Poems of America's Heartland (2007)
- Still Wandering in the Wilderness: Poems of the Jewish Diaspora (2007)
- The World Waiting to Be: Poems About the Creative Process (2008)
- The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky: Volume Four, 1981-1985 (edited by Sheri L. Vandermolen) (2008)
- Unser Kampf: Poems of the Final Solution (2008)*
- Dine-Rite: Breakfast Poems (2008)
- Rien Sans Amour: Love Poems for Jane (2009)*
- By Leaps and Bounds: Volume Two of The Seasons of Youth (2009)
- At Water's Edge: Poems of Lake Nebagamon, Volume One (2010)
- Seizing the Sun and Moon: Volume Three of The Seasons of Youth (2010)
- At Dock's End: Poems of Lake Nebagamon, Volume Two (2011)
- In the Liberation Camps: Poems of the Endlösung (2011)*
- Just Ours: Love Passages with Linda, Volume One (2011)
Fiction
- Between Grief and Nothing (novel) (1964)*
- Between the Heron and the Wren (novel) (1965)*
- Dink Phlager's Alligator and Other Stories (1966)*
- The Drift of Things (novel) (1966)*
- Vineyard's Toys (novel) (1967)*
- The Bindle Stiffs (novel) (1968)*
- Catchin' the Drift o' the Draft (short fictions) (Time Being Books, 1999)
- This Here's a Merica (short fictions) (Time Being Books, 1999)
- Yellow Bricks (short fictions) (Time Being Books, 1999)
- Leaky Tubs (short fictions) (Time Being Books, 2001)
- Nuts to You! (short fictions) (Time Being Books, 2004)
- Rated Xmas (short fictions) (Time Being Books, 2004)
- Pigskinizations (short fictions) (Time Being Books, 2005)
- With One Foot in the Butterfly Farm (short fictions) (Time Being Books, 2009)
- Getting to Unknow the Neighbors (short fictions) (Time Being Books, 2011)
Memoir
- The Adventures of the Night Riders, Better Known as the Terrible Trio (with Richard Milsten) (1961)*
(* unpublished text)