Tracing the days of the writer edging into middle age, the 888 poems presented in volume four of The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky offer a glimpse into the frenzied life of a man compelled, by his discipline and inner passion, to capture the elements of his existence and explode them upon the page ... Startlingly honest and bristling with the energy of Brodsky's discontent, this book records the poet gaining momentum, as a writer, even as his personal life spirals out of control. --Time Being Books.

Volume for 1958 includes "Anthology of poems from the seventeen previously published Braithwaite anthologies."

Essays on the writers whose works are the story of modern American poetry to World War II - the story of successive generations of writers increasingly gaining familiarity in and security with the American idiom, gaining confidence in being American poets without having to turn to Europe for models or for approval, nor of having to turn away from Europe.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I -- Pictures at an Exhibition -- In the Emergency Room -- Brain Coral -- A Poem Written for the Aviary at a Time of Its Possible Closing -- Ash and Stone -- The Jars -- Sifting through the Remains -- Lost Waters -- Salvation Army -- The Employments of Time in Homestead -- A Memorium for the Syria Mosque Razed to Make Space for Parking -- Martha in Darkness -- II -- Magnetic North -- Lewis Hine: Two Photographs -- Steel Engravings -- Quatrains for a Christmas Bear -- For the Inmate Pedro Velazquez, Who Restored a Wooden Tricycle for Our Youngest Son's Christmas -- Phipps Conservatory -- First Visit to My Mother's Grave, North Side Catholic Cemetery -- Cigar: An Ode -- Folding the Fox -- The Burning World -- Rust Belt -- Homestead Park -- Notes

Revisiting an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960s In Impermanent Blackness, Korey Garibaldi explores interracial collaborations in American commercial publishing—authors, agents, and publishers who forged partnerships across racial lines—from the 1910s to the 1960s. Garibaldi shows how aspiring and established Black authors and editors worked closely with white interlocutors to achieve publishing success, often challenging stereotypes and advancing racial pluralism in the process. Impermanent Blackness explores the complex nature of this almost-forgotten period of interracial publishing by examining key developments, including the mainstream success of African American authors in the 1930s and 1940s, the emergence of multiracial children’s literature, postwar tensions between supporters of racial cosmopolitanism and of “Negro literature,” and the impact of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements on the legacy of interracial literary culture. By the end of the 1960s, some literary figures once celebrated for pushing the boundaries of what Black writing could be, including the anthologist W. S. Braithwaite, the bestselling novelist Frank Yerby, the memoirist Juanita Harrison, and others, were forgotten or criticized as too white. And yet, Garibaldi argues, these figures—at once dreamers and pragmatists—have much to teach us about building an inclusive society. Revisiting their work from a contemporary perspective, Garibaldi breaks new ground in the cultural history of race in the United States.

Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.