Books : Mystery, So Long (Poets, Penguin)
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by: Stephen Dobyns
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780143034629
ISBN: 0143034626
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: March 29, 2005
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Sales Rank: 634171
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Product Description:
Thomas Lux has called Stephen Dobyns “one of the very finest poets writing in America today. His poems are brave, ravenous, intensely moving, and utterly his own.” The poems in his new volume, Mystery, So Long, use both free verse and traditional forms to examine life’s complications and peculiar joys, in language that varies from the staid to the hysteric and in situations ranging from the commonplace to the mythic. Humor, surprise, the absurd, and the ferocious are used as so many picks and shovels to further Dobyns’s dark explorations in this powerful collection.
From “Mystery, So Long”
At first, it filled the space around us with holes,
the mystery. It was scary. People fell through them.
There goes Og, people might say. They sang hymns
to the mystery. They pounded on drums. They fed
the mystery both friends and strangers. It seemed
a good idea. The mystery hungered for human flesh.
Oh, implacable and mysterious mystery.
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Rating: - Mystery So Long...How would you describe it?
Simply put, Stephen Dobyns is sassy, irreverant, honest, and appears to have had as much fun writing this collection of poems as I have had reading them. After hearing the poet at a reading last week, and enjoying this collection, I have already ordered "Velocities." It is impossible not to smile or even guffaw while reading Stephen Dobyns.
Rating: - A Brutal Truth
I will not quote a selection of lines from Dobyns' work as I feel the title alone encapsulates the duality inherent in all of Dobyns' poetry, a duality he has sharpened to an even finer point with his present book, "Mystery, So Long". The title presents the reader with a seemingly comic quip disregarding mystery as surpassed like the exultant words of Little Caesar as he escapes from the cops-so long, suckers. But it is just this comedic stance that modulates with the empathetic and disarms the ... Read More
Rating: - A Must-Have Book for All Poetry Lovers
Whether you're new to poetry or a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, YOU WILLL NOT REGRET BUYING THIS BOOK! In fact, after finishing it for the first time, I immediately ordered copies for my closest poetry and non-poetry friends. And uniformly they report enjoying it, poem after sparkling poem.
Moreover, if the world is just (though who's naïve enough to believe it is?), then Mystery, So Long will win at least the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, or the Lenore Marshall ... Read More
Rating: - Another Meditative Mood
Usually, Stephen Dobyns is at his best when writing in a meditative mood. One thinks immediately of the character of Heart from PALLBEARER''S ENVYING THE ONE WHO RIDES, of the narrative interpretations of the paintings of Balthus from THE BALTHUS POEMS, or most recently, of the prose constructions of THE PORCUPINE'S KISSES. MYSTERY, SO LONG, Dobyns' twelve volume, is not (at least explicitly anyway), that kind of book. Which is not to say, however, that it's not without its own meditations. Most notably, ... Read More
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