ABOUT THIS BOOK

My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again celebrates 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.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

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.

REVIEWS

“Daisy Fried’s poetry is fluid and quicksilver as life seen close up. Here is an original voice: provocative, poignant, and often very funny.”
—Joyce Carol Oates

“Fried’s vivacious sophomore effort is a breath of pure oxygen for the serious, politically engaged, unpretentious free-verse storytelling so popular in American poetry a generation ago and in eclipse since. Winningly personal, the poems are nevertheless artful, with a light touch to balance their heavy subjects of social and racial injustice.”
--Publishers Weekly

“The satirical tone here is delicious and the social observation is shrewd.”
--Poetry Magazine

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I.
Cordless 3
Doll Ritual 5
American Brass 6
Neat Hair 9
Shooting Kinesha io
Best of Show 14
Seven Years 16
Jubilate South Philly: City 14 17
Broken Radios 20
Gal Noir 21
The Falling 23
II.
Aunt Leah, Aunt Sophie and the Negro Painter 27
The Hawk 30
Running while Screaming 31
The Drunkard's Bar 33
Go to Your Room 35
Empty Woman 37
At Advent, the Waiting Room 39
Sugar 40
First Boyfriend, 14 42
Some Loud Men, Some Women 43
Pablo Picasso Was Never Called an Asshole 45
Chicken Factory 47
My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again 51
Used One Speed, Princeton 54
Stealing from Lehigh Dairy 55
Three Times Only 58
The Conference Notes 59
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
Envy 65
In a Station of the Metro 68
Death, a poem in two parts 69
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 71

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