num_pages: 80
description: My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again celebrates the contradictions and quandaries of contemporary American life. These subversive, frequently self-mocking narrative poems are by turns funny and serious, book-smart and street-smart, lyrical and colloquial. Set in Philadelphia, Paris and New Jersey, the poems are at ease with sex happiness and sex trouble, girl-talk and grownup married life, genre parody and antiwar politics, family warfare and family love. Unsentimental but full of emotion, Daisy Fried's new collection, a finalist for the 2005 James Laughlin Prize, is unforgettable.
language: English
title: My Brother is Getting Arrested Again
titlecomplete: My Brother is Getting Arrested Again (Pitt Poetry Series)
genres: Collections, Literary Fiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 90
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Poetry
publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press