Beschreibung:
Best-selling poet/novelist Stephen Dobyns focuses on the hard truth of mortality, including sonnets about the recent death of his wife.
This new collection from best-selling poet and novelist Stephen Dobyns focuses on the hard, ephemeral truth of mortality, and includes the section "Sixteen Sonnets for Isabel" about the recent death of his wife. In true Dobyns fashion, these poems grip and guide readers into a state of empathy, raising the question of how one lives and endures in the world.
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