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by: Norman Dubie
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781556592133
ISBN: 1556592132
Label: Copper Canyon Press
Manufacturer: Copper Canyon Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: October 01, 2004
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Sales Rank: 1521748
Studio: Copper Canyon Press
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The New York Times called Norman Dubie 'one of our premier poets,' and his new book proves the point. This 'broken fantasia' addresses humankind's engagement with spiritual practice. Backdropped by politics and religion, Dubie searches for independent, individual meaning through the lives of eccentric and visionary holy men such as Meister Eckhart, Rumi, the Tibetan Tashi Lama, the mathematician Ramanujan, Michel de Nostradam and the Egyptian recluse, Cyril. 'I adore how they are all ignoring us,' Dubie writes, 'with an absolute genius-like snoring.'
Norman Dubie, a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, is a Regents' professor at Arizona State University and the author of 18 books of poetry. His work has been translated into 30 languages.
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Rating:  - Typical Dubie Fare
"Hunter in an Arctic Midnight," Part 8 of "In the Palace of the Sans Souci," "The First Incognito," "Winter Garrison," Part 6 of "Ordinary Mornings of a Coliseum," "Desultory Photo with Ocean Prospect", and "Elegy for a Fallen Brother," all organized around those rhetorical strategies to which Norman Dubie so desperately depends, are typical fare and, in their way, fine enough poems. But the bulk of the book strikes me as coming in far below the poet's talents and capabilities. If there is such ... Read More
Rating:  - vivid poems tap into ancient roots
Dubie's poems are infused with a paganistic energy--vivid, simple, preternaturally alert, free from any psychologistic traces. The volume's cover has a mask from a Roman fresco associated with initiation into the cult of Dionysus staring out wide-eyed. "Lizards with sails are screaming to her while the green spade/opens a whole nursery, a powdered vault of spotted dinosaur eggs/racked with loose hexes of eight,..." (from "The Young Professor of Wyoming Wears a Red-Banded Skin of Snake on the ... Read More
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