The Springhouse
Subtitle
Poems
Norman Dubie's 13th collection contains thirty poems on love, childhood, religion and the anguish of war and poverty. According to Library Journal, in Dubie's poetry, "the political and historical realms vie with the purely personal for our interest. Love poems and reminiscence of kin alternate with poems about oppression and violence."
Bio
Norman Dubie is Regents' Professor of English at Arizona State University.
Praise for this book
Norman Dubie's 13th book of poems, 'The Springhouse,' is concerned with compassion — how, as a form of reunion with the world, it saves while reason and knowledge fail. The act of imagination itself is seen as an act of compassion, perhaps the ultimate one. Like the compass that connects 'its cruel nail to its true pencil,' the poems both describe in their stories and enact through their strategies what the book's epigraph, from John Berryman, so beautifully reminds us of: 'We are on each other's hands/Who care.'
Jorie Graham The New York Times
