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Poems
The poems in this collection by premier poet Norman Dubie deal with the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Mapplethorpe controversy, the U.S. invasion of Panama and modern life.
Bio
Norman Dubie is Regents' Professor of English at Arizona State University.
Praise for this book
Dubie is a master of the persona poem — writing as what Emily Dickinson termed 'the supposed person.' In this, the final volume in a trilogy that includes 'The Springhouse' and 'Groom Falconer,' Dubie's subjects are incredibly wide-ranging: a dead Aztec prince, Henry Thoreau, Philip K. Dick. In poems that strum with tension, Dubie shows us the ordinary world: a woman stepping out of her skirt 'into a haze of gnats,' as well as the other world where a prince's 'thumbs,/ Were buried in the floor beneath him/ To keep him from the cleverness of the dead.'
Doris Lynch Library Journal
