Julie Bruck has published three previous collections with Brick Books, most recently, Monkey Ranch, which received the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry in 2012. Recent work has appeared in The New Yorker, Best Canadian Poetry, The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, Plume, The Puritan, Hazlitt, and The Rusty Toque. A long-time Montrealer, she lives in San Francisco. How to Avoid Huge Ships is her fourth book of poetry.

Books by Julie Bruck:

Other poems on the web by Julie Bruck:
"To Bring the Horse Home"
"Love to But"
"Mutanabbi Steet, Baghdad"
"The Good Hand"

Julie Bruck According to Wikipedia.

About How to Avoid Huge Ships:

"She is the poet laureate of aftermath, of what we do in the wake of things. She picks up the broken pieces of what's left, and these she patches together, as she can, into beautifully-wrought poems that bear eloquent witness to what remains."
—Sean Kennedy

"Alert and precise, perceptive and measured, Julie Bruck's poems calibrate situations both grave and brave, serious and hilarious, whilst avoiding the 'large ships' of heavy-handed conclusion. Here are genuine smarts, mature talent, and a wide-angle vision."
—Sharon Thesen

"Julie Bruck writes graceful, lovely and wonderfully constructed poems that are a pleasure to read."
—Stephen Dobyns