Louis Daniel Brodsky
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'''Louis Daniel Brodsky (Louis Brodsky, L.D. Brodsky)''' (born [[April 17]], [[1941]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[poet]] and Faulkner scholar.<ref>1.</ref>
==Life==
Brodsky was born in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], in 1941, where he attended [[Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School|St. Louis Country Day School]]. After earning a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]], [[Latin honors|magna cum laude]], at [[Yale University]] in 1963, he received an [[Master of Arts (postgraduate)|M.A.]] in English from [[Washington University in St. Louis]] in 1967 and an M.A. in [[creative writing]] from [[San Francisco State University]] the following year.
From 1968 to 1987, while continuing to write poetry, he assisted in managing a 350-person men's clothing factory in [[Farmington, Missouri]], and started one of the [[Midwestern United States|Midwest's]] first [[Outlet store|factory-outlet]] apparel chains. From 1980 to 1991, he taught English and creative writing at [[Mineral Area Junior College]], in nearby [[Flat River, Missouri|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.<ref>2.</ref>
==Work==
Brodsky is the author of fifty-eight 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 fiction.<ref>3.</ref> His poems and essays have appeared in ''[[Harper's Magazine]]''<ref>4.</ref>, ''[[The Faulkner Journal]]<ref>5.</ref>'', ''[[The Southern Review]]<ref>6.</ref>'', ''[[The American Scholar]]<ref>7.</ref>'', ''Studies in Bibliography''<ref>8.</ref>, and other journals. His work has also been printed in five editions of the annual ''Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry''<ref>9.</ref>.
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]]<ref>10.</ref>.
==Bibliography==
===Poetry===
(all published by [http://www.timebeing.com Time Being Books], St. Louis, MO)<ref>11.</ref>:<br>
* ''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: Poems for a First Baby'' (1992)
* ''Gestapo Crows: Holocaust Poems'' (1992)
* ''The Capital Café: Poems of Redneck, U.S.A.'' (1993)
* ''Disappearing in Mississippi Latitudes'': Volume Two of A Mississippi Trilogy (1994)
* ''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)
* ''Rabbi Auschwitz: Poems Touching the Shoah'' (2000)*
* ''The Swastika Clock: Endlösung Poems'' (2001)*
* ''Shadow War: A Poetic Chronicle of September 11 and Beyond, Volume One'' (2001) (2004)
* T''he 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)
* ''Heavenward'' (2003)
* ''Regime Change: Poems of America's Showdown with Iraq, Volume One'' (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 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 Location of the Unknown: Shoah Poems'' (2008)*
* '' The World Waiting to Be: Poems About the Creative Process'' (2008)
===Bibliography===
(coedited with Robert Hamblin)<ref>12.</ref>
* ''Selections from the William Faulkner Collection of Louis Daniel Brodsky: A Descriptive Catalogue'' (1979)<ref>13.</ref>
* ''Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume I: The Biobibliography'' (1982)<ref>14.</ref>
* ''Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume II: The Letters'' (1984)<ref>15.</ref>
* ''Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume III: The De Gaulle Story'' (1984)<ref>16.</ref>
* ''Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume IV: Battle Cry'' (1985)<ref>17.</ref>
* ''Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume V: Manuscripts and Documents'' (1989)<ref>18.</ref>
* Country Lawyer ''and Other Stories for the Screen by William Faulkner'' (1987)<ref>19.</ref>
* Stallion Road: ''A Screenplay by William Faulkner'' (1989)<ref>20.</ref>
===Biography===
* ''William Faulkner, Life Glimpses'' (1990)<ref>21.</ref>
===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)
===Memoir===
* ''The Adventures of the Night Riders, Better Known as the Terrible Trio'' (with Richard Milsten) (1961)*
(* unpublished text)
== Notes and Citations ==
'''[1]''' The Brodsky Collection. ''Center for Faulkner Studies Site'', Southeast Missouri State University [http://www.semo.edu/cfs/brodsky/index.htm]<br>
'''[2]''' Louis Daniel Brodsky. ''Louis Daniel Brodsky Site'' [http://www.louisdanielbrodsky.com] <br>
'''[3]''' Time Being Books. ''Time Being Books Site'' [http://www.timebeing.com/home/profile-brodsky.htm] <br>
'''[4]''' Brodsky, Louis Daniel. "Rearview Mirror" and "Death Comes to the Salesman." ''Harper's Magazine'' 260 March 1980: 22. <br>
'''[5]''' Brodsky, Louis Daniel. "'Elder Watson in Heaven': Poet Faulkner as Satirist." ''The Faulkner Journal'' I Fall 1985: 2-7; <br> "'Pappy' Faulkner's Recipe for Curing Pork." ''The Faulkner Journal'' II Fall 1986: 73-74; <br> Brodsky, Louis D. "Faulkner's Wounded Art: The Aftermath of Hollywood and World War II." ''The Faulkner Journal'' II Spring 1987: 55-66. <br>
'''[6]''' Brodsky, Louis D. "William Faulkner: Poet at Large." ''The Southern Review'' VIII Fall 1982: 767-775; <br> Brodsky, Louis Daniel. "Manager of Outlet Stores," "Joseph K.," and "Between Connections." ''The Southern Review'' 18 Winter 1982: 175-178; <br> Brodsky, Louis Daniel. "A Day in the Life of Willy Sypher" and "Résumé of a Scrapegoat." ''The Southern Review'' 19 Spring 1983: 366-369; <br> Brodsky, Louis Daniel. "Willy's Southern Route" and "Between Seasons." ''The Southern Review'' 20 Autumn 1984: 890-893; <br> Brodsky, Louis Daniel. "Reflections on William Faulkner: An Interview with Albert I. Bezzerides." ''The Southern Review'' 21 Spring 1985: 376-403; <br> Brodsky, Louis Daniel. "Guilty Until Proven Innocent" and "Young Willy Services Two Major Accounts." ''The Southern Review'' 22 Summer 1986: 558-559; <br> Brodsky, Louis Daniel. "Faulkner's Life Masks." ''The Southern Review'' 22 Autumn 1986: 738-765; <br> Brodsky, Louis Daniel. "Faulkner and the Racial Crisis, 1956." ''The Southern Review'' 24 Autumn 1988: 791-807; <br> Brodsky, Louis Daniel. "The Faulkners, the Franklins, and the Fieldens: A Conversation with Victoria Fielden Johnson." ''The Southern Review'' 25 Winter 1989: 95-131<br>
'''[7]''' Brodsky, Louis Daniel. "A Sky filled With Trees." ''The American Scholar'' 17 March 1978 <br>
'''[8]''' Brodsky, Louis Daniel, and Robert W. Hamblin. "Faulkner's 'L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune': The Evolution of a Poem." ''Studies in Bibliography, Volume Thirty-Three''. Ed. Fredson Bowers. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980. 254-263; <br>
Brodsky, Louis D. "Additional Manuscripts of Faulkner's 'A Dead Dancer.'" ''Studies in Bibliography, Volume Thirty-Four''. Ed. Fredson Bowers. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981. 267-270; <br>
Brodsky, Louis Daniel. "The Autograph Manuscripts of Faulkner's 'The Lilacs.'" ''Studies in Bibliography, Volume Thirty-Six''. Ed. Fredson Bowers. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983. 240-252; <br>
Brodsky, Louis Daniel. "The Textual Development of Faulkner's 'Wash.'" ''Studies in Bibliography, Volume Thirty-Seven''. Ed. Fredson Bowers. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984. 248-281; <br>
Brodsky, Louis Daniel. "A Textual History of Faulkner's 'The Wishing-Tree' and 'The Wishing Tree.'" ''Studies in Bibliography, Volume Thirty-Eight''. Ed. Fredson Bowers. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985. 330-374; <br>
Brodsky, Louis D. "The 1961 Andrés Bello Award: William Faulkner's Original Acceptance Speech." ''Studies in Bibliography, Volume Thirty-Nine''. Ed. Fredson Bowers. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986. 277-281; <br>
Brodsky, Louis Daniel. "William Faulkner's 'Impressions' of 'Danzas Venezuela': The Original Manuscripts." ''Studies in Bibliography, Volume Forty''. Ed. Fredson Bowers. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987. 226-229; <br>
Brodsky, Louis Daniel. " William Faulkner's 1962 Gold Medal Speech." ''Studies in Bibliography, Volume Forty-One''. Ed. Fredson Bowers. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988. 315-321. <br>
'''[9]''' Brodsky, Louis Daniel. "My Flying Machine," "Buffalo," and "Weeding in January." ''Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry'' 1980. 45-46; <br> Brodsky, Louis Daniel. "Death Comes to a Salesman," "Ancestry," and "In Bib Overalls, Work Shirt, and Boots." ''Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry'' 1981. 49-51; <br> Brodsky, Louis Daniel. "A Day in the Life of Willy Sypher," "Redbuds," and "Great-Grandmother." ''Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry'' 1984. 55-57; <br> Brodsky, Louis Daniel. "Willy's Southern Route" and "Inundation." ''Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry'' 1985. 46-48; <br> Brodsky, Louis Daniel. "Young Willy Services Two Major Accounts" and "A Renewal of Faith." ''Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry'' 1986-1988. 62-64. <br>
'''[10]''' The Center for Great Lakes Culture. ''The Center for Great Lakes Culture Site'' Michigan State University [http://www.greatlakes.msu.edu/poebookaward2004.php]<br>
'''[11]''' Time Being Books. ''Time Being Books Site'' [http://www.timebeing.com/home/title.htm]<br>
'''[12]''' Robert Hamblin. ''Robert Hamblin Site'' [http://www2.semo.edu/hamblin/homepage.html] <br>
'''[13]''' Brodsky, Louis Daniel, and Robert W. Hamblin. ''Selections from the William Faulkner Collection of Louis Daniel Brodsky: A Descriptive Catalogue''. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979. <br>
'''[14]''' Brodsky, Louis Daniel, and Robert W. Hamblin. ''Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume I: The Biobibliography''. Jackson: The University Press of Mississippi, 1982. <br>
'''[15]''' Brodsky, Louis Daniel, and Robert W. Hamblin. ''Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume II: The Letters''. Jackson: The University Press of Mississippi, 1984. <br>
'''[16]''' Brodsky, Louis Daniel, and Robert W. Hamblin. ''Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume III: The De Gaulle Story''. Jackson: The University Press of Mississippi, 1984. <br>
'''[17]''' Brodsky, Louis Daniel, and Robert W. Hamblin. ''Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume IV: Battle Cry''. Jackson: The University Press of Mississippi, 1985. <br>
'''[18]''' Brodsky, Louis Daniel, and Robert W. Hamblin. ''Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume V: Manuscripts and Documents''. Jackson and London: The University Press of Mississippi, 1989. <br>
'''[19]''' Brodsky, Louis Daniel, and Robert W. Hamblin, editors. Country Lawyer ''and Other Stories for the Screen by William Faulkner''. Jackson and London: The University Press of Mississippi, 1987. <br>
'''[20]''' Brodsky, Louis Daniel, and Robert W. Hamblin, editors. Stallion Road: ''A Screenplay by William Faulkner''. Jackson and London: The University Press of Mississippi, 1989. <br>
'''[21]''' Brodsky, Louis Daniel. ''William Faulkner, Life Glimpses''. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1990.
== External links ==
* [http://www.louisdanielbrodsky.com Louis Daniel Brodsky]
* [http://www.timebeing.com Time Being Books]
* [http://www.semo.edu/cfs Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University]
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