FIRE IN THE MIND: POEMS NEW AND SELECTED crowns the lifetime career of an outstanding poet whom Claude Wilkinson calls "one of this country's finest poets" and James Matthew Wilson identifies as "one of the greatest poets of our age." This volume presents selections from Brosman's debut collection, WATERING (1972), which received high commendation nationally, through METATES AND OTHER POEMS (2025) and new and uncollected work. Page after page induces poetic shivers. The range of topics, mastery of form, and fidelity to what Wilkinson terms "her traditionalist aesthetic" are visible throughout. While often personal, sometimes wrenchingly so, as in "Father," the work also sketches countless friends and strangers as well as historical figures ("Frémont in the Granite Range"). Romantic sweep and broad strokes, what Wilson praises as an "expansive, loose" quality, alternate with close focus, a classical bent. Many poems are centered on fate: "Destinies may clash. / A tufted titmouse, a bromeliad, and I / are fortune's darlings, or her trash." The geographic scope includes Spain, the English Channel, and the American South and Southwest, painted in vast scenes but with great precision. Nature, "a glyph for universals," occupies a major place, appreciated for itself, insofar as possible, but always in the human light of sensation and intellection, since, though belonging to nature, we also hold nature in our minds and, from it, abstract ideas. The iambic rhythm is felt everywhere, whatever the line and stanza forms--crafted, controlled free verse, blank verse, or traditional rhymed, metered lines. These poems "shake with being."