Unpublished Poems - Softcover

Broc Rossell is from California. He teaches poetry writing, literature, and philosophy in the English and Humanities departments at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. This is his first chapbook. The poems from this collection appeared in Colorado Review, Harvard Review, Memorious Magazine’s blog, and Volt.

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 --Book

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 --Book

I am the outskirts of a nonexistent town, a prolix commentary on an unwritten book. I am no one, no one. I don't know how to feel, how to think, how to love. I am a character in an unwritten novel, passing by, airy and unmade, without having existed, amid the dreams of whoever it is who didn't know how to complete me. -Bernardo Soares to Fernando Pessoa --Book