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by: Norman Dubie
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9781556592126
ISBN: 1556592124
Label: Copper Canyon Press
Manufacturer: Copper Canyon Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 424
Publication Date: October 01, 2004
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Sales Rank: 831880
Studio: Copper Canyon Press
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Norman Dubie has one of the most radical imaginations in American letters.
Winner of the PEN Literary Award for Poetry, The Mercy Seat includes selections from each of Dubie's 17 previous volumes. Whether illuminating a common laborer or a legendary thinker, Dubie meets his subjects with utter compassion for their humanity and the dignity behind their creative work. In pursuit of the well-told story, his love of history is ever-present-though often he recreates his own.
'With its restoration of so many out-of-print poems and its addition of new works, The Mercy Seat was one of last year's most significant publications.' -American Book Review
'The voices of Dubie's monologues are full of astonishing intimacy.' -The Washington Post Book World
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Rating: - "And so poetry wins a few hearts."
"There's more to this life than we know," Norman Dubie observes in his poem, "A Grandfather's Last Lesson" (p. 103), a theme he has explored in his poetry for more than 34 years. Born in Vermont in 1945, Dubie is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop. He has been a poet at Arizona State University at least since the 1980s, when I was a student there, and he is a practicing Tibetan Buddhist. Although he has published twenty books of poetry since 1968, he has been curiously ... Read More
Rating: - essential
For anyone interested in poetry, not just contemporary poetry, but the history of poetry, this book is absolutely essential. Mercy Seat covers almost the entire span of Dubie's career. For whatever reason his first book, Alehouse Sonnets, is absent from this collection. Despite this the reader is given a very valuable gift.
Dubie speaks with a voice that is both ancient and new. It's as if he has always been here, yet just arrived. Beyond these comments though let the book speak for itself.
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