The Everlastings

Norman Dubie’s work “manifests a powerful disposition to relocate his imagination out of its own time and place,” wrote Vernon Shetley in the New York Review of Books.

This relocation may involve the use of a historically significant locale for the setting of a poem (ancient Egypt), or perhaps the life of an artist from the past (Renoir).

In a review of "The Everlastings," Shetley draws a close parallel between Dubie’s techniques and those of the creator of the dramatic monologue, Robert Browning: “One might say that Browning takes a tape recorder to the past, Dubie a camera. [The latter] seeks to evoke emotion through a highly particularized rendering of a world of objects.”

Summary from The Poetry Foundation.