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 ...
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...
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...
