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Norman Dubie has one of the most radical imaginations in American letters.
Winner of the PEN Literary Award for Poetry, The Mercy Seat includes selections from each of Dubie’s 17 previous volumes. Whether illuminating a common laborer or a legendary thinker, Dubie meets his subjects with utter compassion for their humanity and the dignity behind their creative work. In pursuit of the well-told story, his love of history is ever-present—though often he recreates his own.
“With its restoration of so many out-of-print poems and its addition of new works, The Mercy Seat was one of last year’s most significant publications.” —American Book Review
“The voices of Dubie’s monologues are full of astonishing intimacy.” —The Washington Post Book World
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Norman Dubie, author of twenty books of poetry, is a Regents' professor at Arizona State University. A practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism whose work has been translated into thirty languages, Dubie received the PEN Center USA Literary Award for The Mercy Seat: Collected and New Poems.
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The Widow of the Beast of Ingolstadt
A fork in the garden, the widow digging
Behind her elms
Lives like a mouse with the esteem of a few flowers.
She watches at dusk
While the indigo bunting, out of its cage,
Walks through a plague of snails
That is still smoldering. The gardener
Killed them with gasoline and a long trench, it was
Lye the last time. She thought
Of Pastor Bonhoeffer, who plotted
Against Hitler, and the other prisoners
In the canvas truck
That burned wood, the chuff-chuff
Of steam up the late winter road
From Buchenwald to Flossenbürg-all of
Them hanged in the morning, in the background
The white outbursts of an acetylene torch
Up in the eaves of the S.S. barracks . . .
The widow last night was reading
The third testament, just a row of birches
Swaying in the breeze, and she felt aged-
Then, in all of a moment, she knew
Her husband's watch had just stopped in his grave.
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- PublisherCopper Canyon Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1556592124
- ISBN 13 9781556592126
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages424
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