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Echoes
Expansion Slots
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Feet
Fingernails
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From Publishers Weekly
With one eye on "the single door through which we all must exit," poet and novelist Dobyns ( Cemetery Nights ) addresses the body and its parts in discursive, sometimes exhortatory tones, as in "Eyelids," which ends, "This is the world to love. There is no other." In these not especially sensuous poems, direct, forceful images are striking: "her belly a velvet lake beneath / one's hands" in "The Body's Joy"; when the subject of "Desire" is stirred, "fat possibility swaggers into the world like a big spender entering a bar." Dobyns's imposing strengths are revealed in the longer poems where, mining single moments--the fleeting sight of another driver in "Traffic"; a view of senile nuns in a rest home in "Careers"; a daily ritual with his toddler daughter in "Shaving"--he deftly manages complex intellectual progressions with no loss of either immediacy or persuasiveness. A series of sonnets on Cezanne is interspersed, but Dobyns is best at explicating his vision of our bumper-to-bumper move toward death, in which we are at once frustrated and saved by the company of others.
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0140586504
- ISBN 13 9780140586503
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages160
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