My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again

My Brother Is Getting Arrested Againcelebrates the contradictions and quandaries of contemporary American life. These subversive, frequently self-mocking narrative poems are by turns funny and serious, book-smart and street-smart, lyrical and colloquial. Set in Philadelphia, Paris and New Jersey, the poems are at ease with sex happiness and sex trouble, girl-talk and grownup married life, genre parody and antiwar politics, family warfare and family love. Unsentimental but full of emotion, Daisy Fried's new collection, a finalist for the 2005 James Laughlin Prize, is unforgettable.

Daisy Fried is the author of She Didn't Mean to Do It, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. She has also received the Cohen Award for poetry from Ploughshares, a Pushcart Prize, and the Leeway Award for Excellence in poetry. Fried has been a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University and a Pew Fellow in poetry. Currently the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence at Smith College, she lives in Northampton, MA, and Philadelphia.

I.

Cordless

3

(2)

Doll Ritual

5

(1)

American Brass

6

(3)

Neat Hair

9

(1)

Shooting Kinesha

10

(4)

Best of Show

14

(2)

Seven Years

16

(1)

Jubilate South Philly: City 14

17

(3)

Broken Radios

20

(1)

Gal Noir

21

(2)

The Falling

23

(4)

II.

Aunt Leah, Aunt Sophie and the Negro Painter

27

(3)

The Hawk

30

(1)

Running while Screaming

31

(2)

The Drunkard's Bar

33

(2)

Go to Your Room

35

(2)

Empty Woman

37

(2)

At Advent, the Waiting Room

39

(1)

Sugar

40

(2)

First Boyfriend 14

42

(1)

Some Loud Men, Some Women

43

(2)

Pablo Picasso Was Never Called an Asshole

45

(2)

Chicken Factory

47

(4)

III.

My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again

51

(3)

Used One Speed, Princeton

54

(1)

Stealing from Lehigh Dairy

55

(3)

Three Times Only

58

(1)

The Conference Notes

59

(5)

Slack Morning, Reading Sterne for the First Time at 36, after My Husband Has Mocked Me for Years for My Omission, Princeton, Early Fall

64

(1)

Envy

65

(3)

In a Station of the Metro

68

(1)

Death, a poem in two parts

69

(2)

Acknowledgments

71

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