I Think Deeply of Ruin

Lucie Brock-Broido (1956–2018), a longtime contributing editor of AGNI, published four collections of poetry, all with Knopf: Stay, Illusion (2013), Trouble in Mind (2005), The Master Letters (1997), and A Hunger (1988). Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA Fellowships, and the Witter-Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she taught in the MFA program at Columbia University until her death on March 6, 2018.

Brock-Broido’s book The Master Letters was reviewed in AGNI 43 by Larissa Szporluk.

Our founder delivered this eulogy at Story Chapel in Mt. Auburn Cemetery.