{"product_id":"local-fauna-paperback","title":"Local Fauna - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrodeur\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLocal Fauna\u003c\/i\u003e opens with a meta-poem about Jack Spicer, and I couldn't help but think of his 'dictated' poetry, poetry as vessel, poetry getting down what needs to be said. Brian Brodeur's poems have this urgency--life, death, cruelty, politics, war, capitalism, and love. Hard truths come through the past, radio interviews, zoo animals, neighbors, personas, and pop songs. Brian Broduer's poetry has insistence and morality, inclusivity and beauty. \u003ci\u003eLocal Fauna\u003c\/i\u003e is terrific.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Denise Duhamel\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Brian Brodeur's formal skill, his feel for the whole history beneath a sentence, a line, a syllable, is matched here only by his unsentimental compassion for the people he renders in his poems. I can think of few other poets who capture what contemporary American life actually feels, looks, and sounds like as movingly as Brodeur does. Poems such as 'Cousins, ' 'Local Fauna, ' and 'The Register' will be with us for a long time indeed. Brian Brodeur is a marvel.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Peter Campion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrian Brodeur\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eNatural Causes\u003c\/i\u003e (2012) and \u003ci\u003eOther Latitudes\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), as well as the chapbook \u003ci\u003eSo the Night Cannot Go on Without Us\u003c\/i\u003e (2007). New poems and interviews have been published or are forthcoming in \u003ci\u003eAWP Writer's Chronicle, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCrab Orchard Review, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMeasure, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e32 Poems, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eShenandoah, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review.\u003c\/i\u003e Brodeur curates the blog \"How a Poem Happens,\" an online anthology of over 150 interviews with poets. A 2013 Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, he is currently a George Elliston Fellow in Poetry in the Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature Program at the University of Cincinnati, where he serves as an assistant editor for \u003ci\u003eThe Cincinnati Review.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 46\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 8.29 x 6.46 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47868573352157,"sku":"9781606352373","price":8.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/bBKln4RKmY9781606352373.webp?v=1777633157","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/local-fauna-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}