Stranded in the Land of Transients Author:Louis Daniel Brodsky This volume’s forty-seven chronologically arranged poems, from June to October 1975, trace Brodsky’s life as a road-poet and manager of outlet stores, during a time when he was “itinerant minister of surplus and flaw,” traveling throughout the Midwest, “selling his soul wholesale,” by day, and assuaging his loneliness, at night, with wine a... more »nd music, while hiding himself away in hotel bars that might absorb him in their “dim-lit anonymity.« less