The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky, Volume One, 1963-1967

The first volume of Brodsky's complete collection representing a poetic voice in the process of maturation. The volume mirrors the poet's prodigious output and begins with his first poem written at Yale in 1963 continuing through his years as a graduate student and culminating with his entry in 1967 into a professional writing career. The poems, prose, and fragments collected in this volume are sometimes whimsical, often searching, and interesting more for their scholarly value than an aesthetic one. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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.