This collection of poems by Dabney Stuart weaves together carnal and familial love, the search for lost innocence and the epistemology of memory into moments of hallucinatory focus where insight comes and goes.
This collection of poems by Dabney Stuart weaves together carnal and familial love, the search for lost innocence and the epistemology of memory into ...
A collection of poems providing a commentry on the themes of exploration and discovery. Stuart approaches these themes from a variety of angles - historical, physical, familial and psychological - and on scales ranging from the observations of a grasshopper to plate tectonics.
A collection of poems providing a commentry on the themes of exploration and discovery. Stuart approaches these themes from a variety of angles - hist...
The poems in this collection vary in subject - World War II, browsing library stacks, a family reunion, sky diving, a visit to a museum and cancer, among other topics - and are arranged to suggest a gradual acceptance of the unavoidable vicissitudes, frictions and griefs of human life.
The poems in this collection vary in subject - World War II, browsing library stacks, a family reunion, sky diving, a visit to a museum and cancer, am...
Exhibiting the mastery of poetic line and sharpness of focus we have come to associate with Dabney Stuart's work, this volume, Stuart's fifteenth, weaves a series of finely delineated portraits into a complicated fabric of relationship. Family Preserve gathers the family poems scattered throughout Stuart's books over the past four decades and intersperses them with new and previously unpublished poems. By turns comic and tragic, this collection engages the reader in the complex process of longing, mourning, and preserving family ties.
Beginning with what would seem the end, the...
Exhibiting the mastery of poetic line and sharpness of focus we have come to associate with Dabney Stuart's work, this volume, Stuart's fifteenth, ...
The poems in TIME'S BODY show Dabney Stuart's usual wide range of subjects: from baseball to quantum physics, the American southwest to New Zealand, Paul Cezanne to George Herbert. The suggestion of a Chinese influence, pervasive in his previous book, Greenbrier Forest, appears again here in several compressed lyrics, such as the title poem. There is also his characteristic psychological insight, delight in language and dreams, and his trademark formal variety, engaging what he called in a 2001 interview, "the tension between the verse pattern and the voice playing within and against it."...
The poems in TIME'S BODY show Dabney Stuart's usual wide range of subjects: from baseball to quantum physics, the American southwest to New Zealand, P...
