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.
"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
"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
"You can't derange, or re-arrange,
your poems again. (But the sparrows can their song.)
The words won't change again. Sad friend, you cannot change."
? Elizabeth Bishop
