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Synopsis
Stephen Dobyns is one of America's most respected poets; his manner is tart and often sardonic, his language tough, funny, yet at heart profoundly humane. In his eleventh book of poetry he pushes the boundaries of conventional collections, presenting an intriguing two-part volume. The first section contains ruminative prose poems, dealing with a man who is looking back over the successes and failures of his life, that are intercut with short "considerations" in the manner of the Maxims of La Rochefoucauld. The second section presents an alphabetical selection of words defined by Dobyns in evocative one-line phrases. Punctuating the text throughout are woodcuts and line drawings by the artist Howie Michels. A compelling exploration of attitudes, words, and concepts, this is an important addition to Doybns's body of work.
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About the Author
Stephen Dobyns, author of ten previous volumes of poetry and nineteen novels, teaches in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, three fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, and numerous other awards.
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"This one has sex to prove the world exists, that one gets bitten by the dog." Such disarming aphorisms, along with paragraph-long meditations on death, sex, fame, and memory, make up the first and by far the better half of The Porcupine's Kisses, a well-constructed if somewhat repetitive volume of poetic prose from Stephen Dobyns, the prolific and accessible poet (Cemetery Nights; Velocities) and novelist (The Church of Dead Girls, etc.). That first half is all poetic, generalized sentences and paragraphs, linked by the speaker's sensibility. The second half, "Definitions," comprises hundreds of wisecracking or deflating definitions (loosely modeled on Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary), each one phrase long, in alphabetical order: "Erudition: necktie on a soapbox. Esthetic: the rhetoric of bad taste." With illustrations by Howie Michels.
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0142002445
- ISBN 13 9780142002445
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages176
- IllustratorMichels Howie
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