Poetry. "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

Author City: VANCOUVER, BC CAN

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. UNPUBLISHED POEMS is his first book of poetry.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).