Pub Date: May 15th, 2002
Format: Paperback
Pages: 34
Trim Size: 6″ x 7″
ISBN: 0-9659443-4-4
Price: $8.95

Lucille Broderson says that, like the almond tree in later summer, “I didn’t know either that time would come.” She may not have known that time and age were coming, but now that they are here she meditates on them with eloquent clarity, weighing with beautiful judiciousness the vibrant presence of life with the losses that accrue with time. Her vision is unflinching, and her heart is large enough to encompass, barely, her vision.

– Andrew Hudgins

In Japan, artists who have worked a lifetime at perfecting their art are considered national treasures. Lucille Broderson is an American national treasure. Her poems are at once fierce and delicate, filled with both longing and wisdom. If she writes from the perspective of age, it is an age ablaze with passions, filled with as many questions as answers. One trusts her as one trusts Milosz: a life’s worth of regret and ecstasy informs each poem, gives them their urgency and an unarguable sense of purposefulness. How lucky we are to have these poems.

– Jim Moore

Lucille Broderson was born in 1916 in Willmar, Minnesota. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Triquarterly, Nimrod, Agassiz Review, Ironwood and in the Spout Press anthology A Definitive Guide to the Twin Cities.

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