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9781556594830 English 1556594836 "Norman Dubie is one of our premier poets.""The New York Times""Dubie's poems are unmatched in their incandescent imaginings, gorgeous language, and fearless tracking of the inexorably turning wheel of existence.""Booklist""Dubie is] one of the most powerful and influential American poets.""The Washington Post"In his twenty-ninth collection of poems, Norman Dubie returns to a rich, color-soaked vision of the world. Strangeness becomes a parable for compassion, each poem leading the reader to an uncommon way of understanding human capacities. In the futuristic sphere of "The Quotation of Bone," the mind wanders meditatively into an imaginative and uncontainable history.The Quotations of Bone"The meal of bone was a soured milkjust the heads of giant elkin a dark circle looking downon a wooden bowl of soda crackersand pork. One large kniferesting in the meatof a woodsman's calloused hand.He grins at his womanwho is slowly poisoning himwith the stringy resins of morning glory.A tasteless turpentine with pink pig.The speeches of boneare matrimonial in early autumnby January there's a froth of bloodat a nostril.He thinks a long icicle is buried in his ear.She thinks D. H. Lawrence was a grim buccaneer.I hate most men. Adore the few named Lou.One small addendum: the dead elk are grinning too."Norman Dubie is a Regents professor at Arizona State University. He lives in Tempe, Arizona.", "Norman Dubie is one of our premier poets."-- The New York Times "Dubie's poems are unmatched in their incandescent imaginings, gorgeous language, and fearless tracking of the inexorably turning wheel of existence."-- Booklist "Dubie [is] one of the most powerful and influential American poets."-- The Washington Post In his twenty-ninth collection of poems, Norman Dubie returns to a rich, color-soaked vision of the world. Strangeness becomes a parable for compassion, each poem leading the reader to an uncommon way of understanding human capacities. In the futuristic sphere of The Quotation of Bone , the mind wanders meditatively into an imaginative and uncontainable history. The Quotations of Bone The meal of bone was a soured milk-- just the heads of giant elk in a dark circle looking down on a wooden bowl of soda crackers and pork. One large knife resting in the meat of a woodsman's calloused hand. He grins at his woman who is slowly poisoning him with the stringy resins of morning glory. A tasteless turpentine with pink pig. The speeches of bone are matrimonial in early autumn-- by January there's a froth of blood at a nostril. He thinks a long icicle is buried in his ear. She thinks D. H. Lawrence was a grim buccaneer. I hate most men. Adore the few named Lou. One small addendum: the dead elk are grinning too. Norman Dubie is a Regents professor at Arizona State University. He lives in Tempe, Arizona., 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist "Norman Dubie is one of our premier poets."-- The New York Times "Dubie's poems are unmatched in their incandescent imaginings, gorgeous language, and fearless tracking of the inexorably turning wheel of existence."-- Booklist "Dubie [is] one of the most powerful and influential American poets."-- The Washington Post In his twenty-ninth collection of poems, Norman Dubie returns to a rich, color-soaked vision of the world. Strangeness becomes a parable for compassion, each poem leading the reader to an uncommon way of understanding human capacities. In the futuristic sphere of The Quotation of Bone , the mind wanders meditatively into an imaginative and uncontainable history. The Quotations of Bone The meal of bone was a soured milk-- just the heads of giant elk in a dark circle looking down on a wooden bowl of soda crackers and pork. One large knife resting in the meat of a woodsman's calloused hand. He grins at his woman who is slowly poisoning him with the stringy resins of morning glory. A tasteless turpentine with pink pig. The speeches of bone are matrimonial in early autumn-- by January there's a froth of blood at a nostril. He thinks a long icicle is buried in his ear. She thinks D. H. Lawrence was a grim buccaneer. I hate most men. Adore the few named Lou. One small addendum: the dead elk are grinning too. Norman Dubie is a Regents professor at Arizona State University. He lives in Tempe, Arizona., Norman Dubie is one of our premier poets."- The New York Times "Dubie's poems are unmatched in their incandescent imaginings, gorgeous language, and fearless tracking of the inexorably turning wheel of existence."- Booklist "Dubie [is] one of the most powerful and influential American poets."- The Washington Post In his twenty-ninth collection of poems, Norman Dubie returns to a rich, color-soaked vision of the world. Strangeness becomes a parable for compassion, each poem leading the reader to an uncommon way of understanding human capacities. In the futuristic sphere of The Quotation of Bone, the mind wanders meditatively into an imaginative and uncontainable history. The Quotations of Bone The meal of bone was a soured milk-just the heads of giant elkin a dark circle looking downon a wooden bowl of soda crackersand pork. One large kniferesting in the meatof a woodsman's calloused hand.He grins at his womanwho is slowly poisoning himwith the stringy resins of morning glory.A tasteless turpentine with pink pig.The speeches of boneare matrimonial in early autumn-by January there's a froth of bloodat a nostril.He thinks a long icicle is buried in his ear.She thinks D. H. Lawrence was a grim buccaneer.I hate most men. Adore the few named Lou.One small addendum:the dead elk are grinning too. Norman Dubie is a Regents professor at Arizona State University. He lives in Tempe, Arizona.", Norman Dubie's distinctive voice and color-saturated imagination have propelled his poetry for more than forty years. His latest collection confronts viciousness in its many forms-the exploitation of Chinese laborers, the splitting of Germany, humankind's headlong ecological disaster-linking the seemingly unconnected and dismissing boundaries that define problems as exclusively personal, social, or historical. Highly lyrical, combining wordplay and startling images with an intuitive, leaping logic, The Quotations of Bone leads readers to an understanding of uncommon compassion and bravery. Wrong Sonnet of the Political Right/Left, Richard Nixon, laughing gas coloring his lips blue with white blotches, is exchanging, in this dream, worn socks with me. He is also passing stacks of gold coins to a mechanical panda who tosses the coins into the skeletal lap of an empress dowager. Nixon muttering governing ain't pretty. Depression-era green glass flying past this Quaker statesman whose brothers are bleeding at the mouth much like the dowager who holds the dripping hide of the panda which she peeled off with an clement of grief and a dull pear knife and her wooden teeth. Book jacket., Winner of the 2016 Griffin International Poetry Prize"Norman Dubie is one of our premier poets.""The New York Times""Dubie's poems are unmatched in their incandescent imaginings, gorgeous language, and fearless tracking of the inexorably turning wheel of existence.""Booklist""Dubie is] one of the most powerful and influential American poets.""The Washington Post" The poems in Dubie s newest collection "The Quotations of Bone"] are deeply oneiric, governed by vigorous leaping energy that brings the intimate into contact with history, and blurs the distinction between what is real because it once happened, and what is real because of the emphatic manner in which it has been felt. Longtime admirers of Dubie will certainly recognize the familiar mind and spirit able to punch through the surface of experience and into deep psychic quandary with a single revelatory gesture (Did you ever want to give someone // All your money?)-but that tendency is greatly amplified here. One feels the unconscious mind working ceaselessly, even playfully, alongside memory, imparting the poems as if with a strange and consoling living spirit. This makes for a heightened sense of mystery and mortality in poems of private experience. And when such an impulse is aligned with public historythe division of Germany, say, or the acceleration of the planet s ecological crisisit is outright haunting. Dubie s uncontested mastery of the lyric poem has, in this collection, broken into strange and revelatory territory. Griffin International Poetry Prize Judges Citation In his twenty-ninth collection of poems, Norman Dubie returns to a rich, color-soaked vision of the world. Strangeness becomes a parable for compassion, each poem leading the reader to an uncommon way of understanding human capacities. In the futuristic sphere of "The Quotation of Bone," the mind wanders meditatively into an imaginative and uncontainable history.The Quotations of Bone"The meal of bone was a soured milkjust the heads of giant elkin a dark circle looking downon a wooden bowl of soda crackersand pork. One large kniferesting in the meatof a woodsman's calloused hand.He grins at his womanwho is slowly poisoning himwith the stringy resins of morning glory.A tasteless turpentine with pink pig.The speeches of boneare matrimonial in early autumnby January there's a froth of bloodat a nostril.He thinks a long icicle is buried in his ear.She thinks D. H. Lawrence was a grim buccaneer.I hate most men. Adore the few named Lou.One small addendum: the dead elk are grinning too."Norman Dubie is a Regents professor at Arizona State University. He lives in Tempe, Arizona."
9781556594830 English 1556594836 "Norman Dubie is one of our premier poets.""The New York Times""Dubie's poems are unmatched in their incandescent imaginings, gorgeous language, and fearless tracking of the inexorably turning wheel of existence.""Booklist""Dubie is] one of the most powerful and influential American poets.""The Washington Post"In his twenty-ninth collection of poems, Norman Dubie returns to a rich, color-soaked vision of the world. Strangeness becomes a parable for compassion, each poem leading the reader to an uncommon way of understanding human capacities. In the futuristic sphere of "The Quotation of Bone," the mind wanders meditatively into an imaginative and uncontainable history.The Quotations of Bone"The meal of bone was a soured milkjust the heads of giant elkin a dark circle looking downon a wooden bowl of soda crackersand pork. One large kniferesting in the meatof a woodsman's calloused hand.He grins at his womanwho is slowly poisoning himwith the stringy resins of morning glory.A tasteless turpentine with pink pig.The speeches of boneare matrimonial in early autumnby January there's a froth of bloodat a nostril.He thinks a long icicle is buried in his ear.She thinks D. H. Lawrence was a grim buccaneer.I hate most men. Adore the few named Lou.One small addendum: the dead elk are grinning too."Norman Dubie is a Regents professor at Arizona State University. He lives in Tempe, Arizona.", "Norman Dubie is one of our premier poets."-- The New York Times "Dubie's poems are unmatched in their incandescent imaginings, gorgeous language, and fearless tracking of the inexorably turning wheel of existence."-- Booklist "Dubie [is] one of the most powerful and influential American poets."-- The Washington Post In his twenty-ninth collection of poems, Norman Dubie returns to a rich, color-soaked vision of the world. Strangeness becomes a parable for compassion, each poem leading the reader to an uncommon way of understanding human capacities. In the futuristic sphere of The Quotation of Bone , the mind wanders meditatively into an imaginative and uncontainable history. The Quotations of Bone The meal of bone was a soured milk-- just the heads of giant elk in a dark circle looking down on a wooden bowl of soda crackers and pork. One large knife resting in the meat of a woodsman's calloused hand. He grins at his woman who is slowly poisoning him with the stringy resins of morning glory. A tasteless turpentine with pink pig. The speeches of bone are matrimonial in early autumn-- by January there's a froth of blood at a nostril. He thinks a long icicle is buried in his ear. She thinks D. H. Lawrence was a grim buccaneer. I hate most men. Adore the few named Lou. One small addendum: the dead elk are grinning too. Norman Dubie is a Regents professor at Arizona State University. He lives in Tempe, Arizona., 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist "Norman Dubie is one of our premier poets."-- The New York Times "Dubie's poems are unmatched in their incandescent imaginings, gorgeous language, and fearless tracking of the inexorably turning wheel of existence."-- Booklist "Dubie [is] one of the most powerful and influential American poets."-- The Washington Post In his twenty-ninth collection of poems, Norman Dubie returns to a rich, color-soaked vision of the world. Strangeness becomes a parable for compassion, each poem leading the reader to an uncommon way of understanding human capacities. In the futuristic sphere of The Quotation of Bone , the mind wanders meditatively into an imaginative and uncontainable history. The Quotations of Bone The meal of bone was a soured milk-- just the heads of giant elk in a dark circle looking down on a wooden bowl of soda crackers and pork. One large knife resting in the meat of a woodsman's calloused hand. He grins at his woman who is slowly poisoning him with the stringy resins of morning glory. A tasteless turpentine with pink pig. The speeches of bone are matrimonial in early autumn-- by January there's a froth of blood at a nostril. He thinks a long icicle is buried in his ear. She thinks D. H. Lawrence was a grim buccaneer. I hate most men. Adore the few named Lou. One small addendum: the dead elk are grinning too. Norman Dubie is a Regents professor at Arizona State University. He lives in Tempe, Arizona., Norman Dubie is one of our premier poets."- The New York Times "Dubie's poems are unmatched in their incandescent imaginings, gorgeous language, and fearless tracking of the inexorably turning wheel of existence."- Booklist "Dubie [is] one of the most powerful and influential American poets."- The Washington Post In his twenty-ninth collection of poems, Norman Dubie returns to a rich, color-soaked vision of the world. Strangeness becomes a parable for compassion, each poem leading the reader to an uncommon way of understanding human capacities. In the futuristic sphere of The Quotation of Bone, the mind wanders meditatively into an imaginative and uncontainable history. The Quotations of Bone The meal of bone was a soured milk-just the heads of giant elkin a dark circle looking downon a wooden bowl of soda crackersand pork. One large kniferesting in the meatof a woodsman's calloused hand.He grins at his womanwho is slowly poisoning himwith the stringy resins of morning glory.A tasteless turpentine with pink pig.The speeches of boneare matrimonial in early autumn-by January there's a froth of bloodat a nostril.He thinks a long icicle is buried in his ear.She thinks D. H. Lawrence was a grim buccaneer.I hate most men. Adore the few named Lou.One small addendum:the dead elk are grinning too. Norman Dubie is a Regents professor at Arizona State University. He lives in Tempe, Arizona.", Norman Dubie's distinctive voice and color-saturated imagination have propelled his poetry for more than forty years. His latest collection confronts viciousness in its many forms-the exploitation of Chinese laborers, the splitting of Germany, humankind's headlong ecological disaster-linking the seemingly unconnected and dismissing boundaries that define problems as exclusively personal, social, or historical. Highly lyrical, combining wordplay and startling images with an intuitive, leaping logic, The Quotations of Bone leads readers to an understanding of uncommon compassion and bravery. Wrong Sonnet of the Political Right/Left, Richard Nixon, laughing gas coloring his lips blue with white blotches, is exchanging, in this dream, worn socks with me. He is also passing stacks of gold coins to a mechanical panda who tosses the coins into the skeletal lap of an empress dowager. Nixon muttering governing ain't pretty. Depression-era green glass flying past this Quaker statesman whose brothers are bleeding at the mouth much like the dowager who holds the dripping hide of the panda which she peeled off with an clement of grief and a dull pear knife and her wooden teeth. Book jacket., Winner of the 2016 Griffin International Poetry Prize"Norman Dubie is one of our premier poets.""The New York Times""Dubie's poems are unmatched in their incandescent imaginings, gorgeous language, and fearless tracking of the inexorably turning wheel of existence.""Booklist""Dubie is] one of the most powerful and influential American poets.""The Washington Post" The poems in Dubie s newest collection "The Quotations of Bone"] are deeply oneiric, governed by vigorous leaping energy that brings the intimate into contact with history, and blurs the distinction between what is real because it once happened, and what is real because of the emphatic manner in which it has been felt. Longtime admirers of Dubie will certainly recognize the familiar mind and spirit able to punch through the surface of experience and into deep psychic quandary with a single revelatory gesture (Did you ever want to give someone // All your money?)-but that tendency is greatly amplified here. One feels the unconscious mind working ceaselessly, even playfully, alongside memory, imparting the poems as if with a strange and consoling living spirit. This makes for a heightened sense of mystery and mortality in poems of private experience. And when such an impulse is aligned with public historythe division of Germany, say, or the acceleration of the planet s ecological crisisit is outright haunting. Dubie s uncontested mastery of the lyric poem has, in this collection, broken into strange and revelatory territory. Griffin International Poetry Prize Judges Citation In his twenty-ninth collection of poems, Norman Dubie returns to a rich, color-soaked vision of the world. Strangeness becomes a parable for compassion, each poem leading the reader to an uncommon way of understanding human capacities. In the futuristic sphere of "The Quotation of Bone," the mind wanders meditatively into an imaginative and uncontainable history.The Quotations of Bone"The meal of bone was a soured milkjust the heads of giant elkin a dark circle looking downon a wooden bowl of soda crackersand pork. One large kniferesting in the meatof a woodsman's calloused hand.He grins at his womanwho is slowly poisoning himwith the stringy resins of morning glory.A tasteless turpentine with pink pig.The speeches of boneare matrimonial in early autumnby January there's a froth of bloodat a nostril.He thinks a long icicle is buried in his ear.She thinks D. H. Lawrence was a grim buccaneer.I hate most men. Adore the few named Lou.One small addendum: the dead elk are grinning too."Norman Dubie is a Regents professor at Arizona State University. He lives in Tempe, Arizona."