Unpublished Poems

By Broc Rossell

Broc Rossell was born in Los Angeles and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is completing a doctorate in literature and creative writing.

“But I don’t know but a book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel – you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety – & even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.”
– Herman Melville

“Susie, what shall I do – there is’nt room enough; not half enough, to hold what I was going to say. Wont you tell the man who makes sheets of paper, that I hav’nt the slightest respect for him!”
– Emily Dickinson

“I am the outskirts of a nonexistent town, a prolix commentary on an unwritten book. I am no one, no one. I don’t know how to feel, how to think, how to love. I am a character in an unwritten novel, passing by, airy and unmade, without having existed, amid the dreams of whoever it is who didn’t know how to complete me.”
– Bernardo Soares to Fernando Pessoa

“You can’t derange, or re-arrange,
your poems again. (But the sparrows can their song.)
The words won’t change again. Sad friend, you cannot change.”
– Elizabeth Bishop

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brooklyn Arts Press
• Release date: Jan 28, 2012
• ISBN: 9781936767137

Broc Rossell

Broc Rossell was born in Los Angeles and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is completing a doctorate in literature and creative writing. This is his first book of poetry. The poems from this collection have previously appeared or will appear in Colorado Review, Harvard Review, Memorious Magazine’s blog, Octopus, Volt, and Volta (né Rabbit Light Movies).

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Unpublished Poems

© 2012 Broc Rossell

EBOOK ISBN-13: 978-1-936767-13-7

Published in The United States of America by: Brooklyn Arts Press, 154 N 9th St #1, Brooklyn, NY 11249

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Smoke

The Eroica, or, Even He Who Sought Refuge in Nobility Must Needs Recognized in a Torn Score that the Enemy Must Be Purged from His