Molly Brodak
Molly Brodak is the author of Bandit: A Daughter’s Memoir (Grove Atlantic, 2016) and A Little Middle of the Night (University of Iowa Press, 2010). Brodak's poems appeared widely, including in Granta, Poetry magazine, Fence, Map Literary, New York Tyrant, Diode, New Orleans Review, Ninth Letter, Colorado Review, Bateau, and Hayden's Ferry Review. She died in early 2020. Source
How to Not Be a Perfectionist
People are vivid
and small
and don’t live
very long—
Published:
2017
Length:
Shorty
Literary Movements:
Contemporary
Anthology Years:
2023
Themes:
Poems of the Everyday
Literary Devices:
Anaphora
a figure of speech in which words repeat at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences
Enjambment
a line break interrupting the middle of a phrase which continues on to the next line