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Dangerous to Know / Patricia Brody

Dangerous to Know

By: Patricia Brody

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“... If the breath of life stirs, Patricia Brody reaches for it, grabs the first branch, the last crotch (we’re talking trees here) and tugs until the ‘root of things’ comes away in her hand, free of the past: ‘the moonlit arm/reaching from the ruined rocks/ of Missolonghi’.  Here ‘cure and the loss of it’ are celebrated.”                     ...
ISBN 978-1-908836-21-2
Pub Date Friday, February 15, 2013
Page Count 70
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“... If the breath of life stirs, Patricia Brody reaches for it, grabs the first branch, the last crotch (we’re talking trees here) and tugs until the ‘root of things’ comes away in her hand, free of the past: ‘the moonlit arm/reaching from the ruined rocks/ of Missolonghi’.  Here ‘cure and the loss of it’ are celebrated.”                         
Richard Howard


“Brody’s eye is drawn to the shady spaces between things—inside histories, underneath rumors, behind curtains, beyond our old ideas of the past ... opening up stories of once-glorious women we’ve been taught to forget—Anne Donne, Caroline Lamb, Heloise, Artemisia... [These] poems crackle and burn, shimmer and groan.”            
Elizabeth Mazzola

“A jet-winged eavesdropping angel, Brody sweeps in among the great ones, sight and sword keen and apt. ... streaming in high style... her excited language and true wit give us these vivid spirits—of Byron, the Wordsworths, Heloise, the Gentileschi—& plenty more women musing among men, affording us their hotly imagined revelations.”                 
Marie Ponsot 

“Notwithstanding, or maybe because of their Byronic glitter, these are confident American poems.  Patricia Brody’s Dangerous to Know resonates with historical voices… Playful, lyrical, knowing, the writing is never without a sense of moment, of ceremonious possibility.  The songs about loss are pleasingly honest and the songs about desire allow the dead to shake off the dust and dance again.”             
Julian Stannard


Patricia Brody

My Blazing World is PATRICIA BRODY’s second collection from Salmon Poetry. Her other books are American Desire (New Women’s Voices Award, Finishing Line, 2009) and Dangerous To Know (Salmon, 2013). Brody has an MSW (Columbia) and an MA of English Lit and Poetry (City College) where her mentors included Marilyn Hacker and Marie Ponsot. She taught English and American Literature at Boricua College in Washington Heights, and practiced as a psychotherapist for 30 years in New York City.

Brody resides on the East coast now, but lived and worked in the Bay Area way before tech, where she was an editor for Guitar Player magazine. She wrote the “first-woman-on-the-cover-story,” about guitarist-blues singer, and 2023 GRAMMY award winner, Bonnie Raitt.

Patricia now teaches an amazing group of women poets on Zoom – Seeking Your Voice: Women Writing Poetry & Memoir – which originated at Barnard College Center for Research on Women. She lives with her artist- photographer husband Tom Kostro and three vocal felines, 20 miles north of NYC. The poet’s three grown children will visit tomorrow.

Two sonnets in the new book, each called “Blue Hour,” won recent prizes from UK competitions. Brody’s poems and photographs have appeared in many print & online journals, and anthologies from Artemis , Barrow Street , BigCityLit , Bright Hills: 25 Years , Crosswinds , Glint , The Thomas Hardy Review , Levure Litteraire , Orbis , Raintown Review , Fire and Rain: Eco- Poetry of California , Junctures (NZ), Mom Egg Review , Moria , Paris Review , Western Humanities Review and others.



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