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The Day's Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech

Autor Stephen Dobyns
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 sep 2016
This new collection from best-selling poet and novelist Stephen Dobyns focuses on the hard, ephemeral truth of mortality, including the section “Sixteen Sonnets for Isabel” about the recent death of his wife; the poem "Laugh," a portrait of the late poet Hayden Carruth; and the poignant parable of a horse in a bar. In true Dobyns fashion, these poems grip and guide readers into a state of empathy, ultimately raising the question of how one lives and endures in the world.
Recognitions
The awful imbalance that occurs with age
when you suddenly see that more friends

have died, than remain alive. And at times
the memory seems so real that the latest

realization of a death can become a second,
smaller death. All those talks cut off in mid-

sentence. All those plans tossed in the trash.
What can you do but sit out on the porch

when evening comes? The day's last light
reddens the leaves of the copper beach.

Stephen Dobyns is the best-selling author of twenty-three novels, fourteen books of poetry, two collections of essays, and one book of short stories. Among his many honors and awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Dobyns has worked as a reporter for Detroit News, and has written reviews for such publications as the New York Times, the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Times Literary Supplement. He has taught at various academic institutions, including Sarah Lawrence College, the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, the University of Iowa, Syracuse University, and Boston University. He currently lives in Westerly, Rhode Island.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781942683162
ISBN-10: 1942683162
Pagini: 120
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: BOA Editions Ltd.
Colecția BOA Editions Ltd.

Recenzii

“Stephen Dobyns is a rare breed, an award-winning poet and a crime novelist whom Stephen King praises.” Boston Globe

"This new book by Stephen Dobyns is one of the rare books of poems that actually deserves the adjective ‘unflinching.’ The poems focus on the hard truth of what it means to live in time, to feel that what we love is destined to vanish and that the truths we rely on to bear us forward may prove ephemeral. Instead of skirting the facts by acts of self-removal or by focusing on issues more tractable, the poems give us the front-line news from the disaster zone. In their determination not to deceive or be deceived, they counter the temptation to helplessness by a continuous enactment of courage and honesty. And by their refusing to be jaded or self-pitying, by reaching out to create a large cast of characters, presented in a wide variety of genres, they include us in their circle of concern. Dark as they often are, they leave us strengthened and enlarged." —Carl Dennis

"Stephen Dobyns' poems have never been of the Tower, nor do they belong in the parlor. Instead, he has struck me, for over forty years, as a poet of great courage and a restless, relentless imagination. He never, never stops trying to do the impossible: to tell the truth. This is a book of mature brilliance." —Thomas Lux

"The Day's Last Light returns us to the origins of poetry: story and song. For nearly four decades, Dobyns has written poetry that interrupts the deadening machinery of our invention to reassert the primacy of human relations and the remnants of wisdom we gain that alight our radiant journeys, which makes him one of America's most relevant and treasured poets. With characteristic wit and literary surliness, this volume continues his big soul reflections. Right now, someone is checking a math equation hoping to unite theories of relativity and black holes, but you are here with this book in your hand ready for the vigilance and proximity of a voice that is ruminative, erudite, and charged to illumine all the edges of our universe." —Major Jackson

"It is time to rank Stephen Dobyns among our finest living poets, for he has written several of the strongest poetry books published in the last forty years, and The Day's Last Light is his most humanly ambitious and imaginatively evocative work to date. Specific death is his subject, the death of his great love, his friends, and his own. His vision reminds one of Shakespeare, hedgeless, unremittingly tragic, but tempered by his absurdist, metaphysical wit, brilliant metaphor, and pragmatism. He never panders, never pumps the emotion. Every poem says, here is this man, inside and out, and the best of them, 'Sixteen Sonnets for Isabel' and 'Laugh,' his superb portrait of a dying Hayden Carruth, are redemptive." —Rodney Jones

"For more than four decades, I have been reading indelible poems by Stephen Dobyns and learning from them—about the world, our human dilemma, and the capacity of poetry. Sui generis, he has not yet been sufficiently recognized for his crucial contributions to American letters, particularly his early mastery of narrative, metaphor, and humor, in poems that were always unafraid of conventions. What most I treasure in this new collection is how, like Prospero, he puts aside his magical powers in the sonnet sequence for Isabel, giving us an unadorned, idiomatic record of grief that is both heartbroken and heartbreaking." —Ellen Bryant Voigt

Notă biografică

Stephen Dobyns is the author of 23 novels, including the popular "Saratoga" crime novels, 14 books of poetry, one book of short stories, and two collections of essays on poetry. His books of poetry include Winter’s Journey (Copper Canyon Press, 2010); Mystery, So Long (2005); The Porcupine’s Kisses (2002); Do They Have a Reason? (2000); Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides (Penguin, 1999); Common Carnage (1996); Velocities: New and Selected Poems 1966-1992 (1994); Cemetery Nights (1987), which won a Melville Cane Award; Black Dog, Red Dog (1984), which was a winner in the National Poetry Series; Heat Death (1980); and Concurring Beasts (1972), which was the 1972 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets. His novels include Boy in the Water (Holt/Metropolitan, 1999); The Church of Dead Girls (1997); Saratoga Fleshpot (1995); The Wrestler’s Cruel Study (1993); and Saratoga Haunting (1993). His novels have been translated into more than ten languages. Among his many honors and awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Dobyns has worked as a reporter for Detroit News, and has written review for such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Times Literary Supplement. He has taught at various academic institutions, including Sarah Lawrence College, the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, the University of Iowa, Syracuse University, and Boston University. He currently lives in Westerly, Rhode Island.

Cuprins

CONTENTS

Part One

1¿Stories
2¿Stars
3¿Wisdom
4¿Parable: Horse
5¿Mrs. Brewster¿ Second Grade Class Picture
6¿Furniture
7¿Water-Ski
8¿Leaf Blowers
9¿Parable: Heaven
10¿Good Days

Part Two: Sixteen Sonnets for Isabel

1¿Monochrome
2¿Song
3¿Technology
4¿Skyrocket
5¿Lizard
6¿Swap Shop
7¿Alien Skin
8¿Pain
9¿Niagara Falls
10¿The Wide Variety
11¿Skin
12¿Never
13¿Casserole
14¿Inexplicably
15¿Prague
16¿Gardens

Part Three

1¿The Miracle of Birth
2¿ The Inquisitor
3¿Fly
4¿The Poet¿s Disregard
5¿Parable: Gratitude
6¿Sincerity
7¿Statistical Norm
8¿Turd
9¿Parable: Friendship
10¿The Dark Uncertainty
11¿No Simple Thing

Part Four: Reversals

1¿Narrative
2¿Determination
3¿Jump
4¿What Happened?
5¿Philosophy
6¿Melodrama
7¿Exercise
8¿Failure
9¿Constantine XI
10¿Literature
11¿Jism
12¿Valencia
13¿Thanks

Part Five

1¿Persephone, Etc.
2¿Crazy Times
3¿Parable: Fan/Paranoia
4¿Winter Wind
5¿So It Happens
6¿Tinsel
7¿Parable: Poetry
8¿Scale
9¿Recognitions
10¿Laugh

Descriere

Best-selling poet/novelist Stephen Dobyns focuses on the hard truth of mortality, including sonnets about the recent death of his wife.