Broad Meadow Bird: 15 Years of Poetry, Brad Vogel
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Brad Vogel’s Broad Meadow Bird gathers fifteen years of poetry into a vivid, wide-ranging debut. Moving from Wisconsin to New Orleans to New York City, Vogel explores love, identity, memory, and survival through five distinct poetic sections. By turns raw, playful, reflective, and imaginative, this collection showcases a poet coming fully into his voice—and celebrating the creative force that sustains him.
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Broad Meadow Bird: 15 Years of Poetry
Paperback – November 3, 2015
by Brad Vogel (Author)
Broad Meadow Bird is the luminous debut collection from American poet Brad Vogel, gathering fifteen years of work into a sweeping poetic journey across landscapes both real and emotional. Vogel’s voice—by turns visceral, tender, sharp-witted, and contemplative—emerges through poems shaped by the places that have defined him: the grounded fields and stoicism of Wisconsin, the haunted resilience of post-Katrina New Orleans, and the restless rhythm of New York City.
Structured in five distinct sections, the collection offers a multifaceted meditation on creativity, survival, and selfhood. “Love Songs from the Closet” captures the ache and complexity of unrequited love; “Zen” freezes moments in crystalline memory; “Surviving the Salt Mines” confronts labor, adversity, and endurance; “Feathers” distills poetic thought into short, piercing fragments; and “Crazy Talk” unleashes imagination at its most vibrant and unpredictable. Across these shifting modes, Vogel maintains a steady, unmistakable voice—one that draws insight from hardship and clarity from chaos.
At its heart, Broad Meadow Bird is an exploration of poetry as a form of survival and connection. Whether grappling with identity, desire, grief, or joy, Vogel’s poems reveal a writer unafraid to look inward, outward, and beyond. As he declares in “A Defense of Love,” capturing the spirit of the entire collection: “They are me and I am glad; love shall findeth a way.”
A striking debut from a poet of range and resonance, Broad Meadow Bird stands as a testament to the power of language to guide, ground, and transform.
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