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1. The Mercy Seat: Collected and
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2. The Volcano
 
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3. The Clouds of Magellan
 
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4. In the Dead of the Night
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5. Insomniac Liar of Topo
 
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6. Alehouse Sonnets
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7. Ordinary Mornings of a Coliseum
8. Groom Falconer
 
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9. Radio Sky
 
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10. The Illustrations: Poems (Selected
 
11. Everlastings
 
12. City of the Olesha Fruit
 
13. Popham of the New Song
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14. Biography - Dubie, Norman (Evans)
 
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15. My dubious calculus. (Norman Dubie)
 
16. Selected and New Poems
 
17. The Illustrations: Poems.
 
18. ODALISQUE IN WHITE. Two Poems.
 
19. Radio Sky
 
20. The Springhouse

1. The Mercy Seat: Collected and New Poems 1967-2001
by Norman Dubie
Paperback: 424 Pages (2004-10-01)
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Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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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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5-0 out of 5 stars "And so poetry wins a few hearts."
"There's more to this life than we know," Norman Dubie observes in his poem, "A Grandfather's Last Lesson" (p. 103), a theme he has explored in his poetry for more than 34 years.Born in Vermont in 1945, Dubie is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop.He has been a poet at Arizona State University at least since the 1980s, when I was a student there, and he is a practicing Tibetan Buddhist.Although he has published twenty books of poetry since 1968, he has been curiously silent for the past decade.THE MERCY SEAT includes poems collected from seventeen of Dubie's previous books, and nearly 100 pages of new poetry.This 165-poem collection is divided into Dubie's 1967 to 1990 poetry (pp. 7-298), and his 1991 to 2001 poetry (pp. 299-398).

Dubie has been called a "poet's poet."Although he is not an easy poet, Dubie is one of our country's finest.His poetry is complex and dreamlike, painting a picture of life that is both wretched and blissful.His subjects range from Randall Jarrell (p. 18), Chekhov (p. 87), Thomas Hardy (p. 107), Coleridge (p. 148), Einstein (p. 150), Meister Eckart (p. 194), and Thomas Merton (p. 265), to a "dark cat" stalking fireflies, "sometimes falling/ On her back, sometimes her jaws working/ Very fast" (p. 17).Dubie's poetry is also rich in sensual imagery:"Later, in a dark room, both of us speckled, middle-aged, and soft/ I dragged my mouth like a snail's foot up your leg and body/ To your mouth.We both shivered" (p. 146).For anyone who appreciates poetry at the top of its form, THE MERCY SEAT should not be missed.

G. Merritt

5-0 out of 5 stars essential
For anyone interested in poetry, not just contemporary poetry, but the history of poetry, this book is absolutely essential.Mercy Seat covers almost the entire span of Dubie's career. For whatever reason his first book, Alehouse Sonnets, is absent from this collection. Despite this the reader is given a very valuable gift.
Dubie speaks with a voice that is both ancient and new. It's as if he has always been here, yet just arrived. Beyond these comments though let the book speak for itself. ... Read more


2. The Volcano
by Norman Dubie
Paperback: 96 Pages (2010-11-01)
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"One of our premier poets."—The New York Times

"Dubie's dramatic poetry seeks to represent our deepest moments of perception, struggle, and revelation. Out of his voice come the voices of multitudes. Yet his achievement and vision are singular."—American Book Review

The Boston Review called Norman Dubie's poems "extraordinary," and the evocative poems of The Volcano certainly are: lyrically intense, hallucinatory, worldly, and precise. In a five-word poem, "A New Moon," he laments, "I will not see it." But there is much he does see: DNA ladders, Sasquatch, Pontius Pilot's mealy figs, and "a calliope of turtles / bobbing in the North Atlantic."

Green fruit on a card table.
At the roadside, a small boy
gnawing on corn smiles
with efficient hunger—no one else
is alive for a hundred square miles—
the road ruptured above and below him—
the jaguar smiles back
in a white cap of ash

that is also the night . . .

Norman Dubie founded the MFA program at Arizona State University. He lives in Tempe, Arizona.


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3. The Clouds of Magellan
by Norman Dubie
 Paperback: Pages (1991-12)
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5-0 out of 5 stars A brilliant philosophical tour-de-force
The fantastic imagination of Norman Dobie is givenfree reign in this magnificent collection of aphorisms and philosophical observations. Dubie's poetic vision approaches the mystical realm for the first time in this bookand shows definitively that Dubie's talent flows both broad and deep. ... Read more


4. In the Dead of the Night
by Norman Dubie
 Paperback: 96 Pages (1976-06-01)
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5. Insomniac Liar of Topo
by Norman Dubie
Paperback: 110 Pages (2007-10-01)
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“Dubie has already been recognized as one of the most powerful and influential American poets . . . his poems have always been generous and inclusive, capable of containing multiple and conflicting worlds—of memory and the present, of the artistic and the daily.”—The Washington Post Book World

“Dubie has a singular talent for inhabiting a persona and making convincing representations of another person’s life, taking on a different view and experience of the world… It is the tenderness of his identifications that make Dubie’s work so extraordinary.” —Boston Review

"Dubie continues to build poems on the unstable terrain of dreams and contemporized Blakean visions, stacking sharp images and impenetrable questions into tottering, sometimes ominous funhouse meditations." —Library Journal

The poems in Norman Dubie’s Insomniac Liar of Topo behave much like that of a linear accelerator: exploding worlds into each other, from opposite poles, with tremendous speed, to discover the worlds within. Populated by an eccentric menagerie of mystics, holy men, and brilliant artists, Dubie brings together the astonishingly grotesque and sardonically beautiful, to call forth the sincere within the context of war and human dissonance.

Dubie, a master purveyor of trickster protest and psychological release, uses an array of voices to highlight the splinter and shatter of wartime, of destroyed art and sacred texts, and the specific and various destructions that have made humans themselves aliens of their own planet.

So, the sun’s down, the ship’s lights
are like obvious fat jewels. And
if we want to have commerce
with the lizard men in their blue suits,
then we must eat more of these slouching animals
and fasted too.

Norman Dubie is the author of nineteen books of poetry and served as poetry editor for The Iowa Review and director of the graduate poetry workshop at the University of Iowa. He helped found the MFA program at Arizona State University in Tempe, where he teaches as a regents professor for creative writing.

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6. Alehouse Sonnets
by Norman Dubie
 Paperback: 56 Pages (2009-03-27)
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In this sequence of fifty poems, Norman Dubie has conversations with the nineteenth-century British essayist William Hazlitt. Marvin Bell says of this book: "It's not simply that a sizeable portion of Hazlitt's life is also Dubie's, but that Dubie's experience, 153 years later, was imbedded in Hazlitt's. The very manner of these fifty 'sonnets' suggests it: an almost 'innocent' attention to the sacred and profane, and exceptional combination of energy and restraint, a 'purity' owing to Dubie's ability to measure the lives of Hazlitt and himself without extraneous judgments. This is a remarkable sequence--for its amazing historical sense, for its special vocabulary and collections of objects, and finally for its psychological rightness. It is the talent of a secret voice." ... Read more


7. Ordinary Mornings of a Coliseum
by Norman Dubie
Paperback: 144 Pages (2004-10-01)
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The New York Times called Norman Dubie “one of our premier poets,” and his new book proves the point. This “broken fantasia” addresses humankind’s engagement with spiritual practice. Backdropped by politics and religion, Dubie searches for independent, individual meaning through the lives of eccentric and visionary holy men such as Meister Eckhart, Rumi, the Tibetan Tashi Lama, the mathematician Ramanujan, Michel de Nostradam and the Egyptian recluse, Cyril. “I adore how they are all ignoring us,” Dubie writes, “with an absolute genius-like snoring.”

Norman Dubie, a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, is a Regents’ professor at Arizona State University and the author of 18 books of poetry. His work has been translated into 30 languages.

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2-0 out of 5 stars Typical Dubie Fare
"Hunter in an Arctic Midnight," Part 8 of "In the Palace of the Sans Souci," "The First Incognito," "Winter Garrison," Part 6 of "Ordinary Mornings of a Coliseum," "Desultory Photo with Ocean Prospect", and "Elegy for a Fallen Brother," all organized around those rhetorical strategies to which Norman Dubie so desperately depends, are typical fare and, in their way, fine enough poems.But the bulk of the book strikes me as coming in far below the poet's talents and capabilities.If there is such a thing as overwritten minimalism, this is it.As much as it pains me to say it, Dubie is here showcasing his Iowa Writer's Workshop pedigree - in his pedantic condescension and leftist moralizing, his knack for sentimentalizing: "a fallen marine, just a schoolboy..."Does the word "schoolboy" have any solid contemporary application, I wonder?I don't know.I doubt it.In any case I don't believe in this schoolboy marine, Mr. Dubie, and neither do you.You haven't made him whole.And you are certainly smart enough to know that the best poem in this collection, "The First Incognito," isn't a poem really, but an elegant prose piece installed with line breaks to give the thing the appearance of a poem.

I suggest looking into the early Alehouse Sonnets (out-of-print and disowned by Dubie) and the phenomenal Groom Falconer, which is pretty easy to get your hands on.

5-0 out of 5 stars vivid poems tap into ancient roots
Dubie's poems are infused with a paganistic energy--vivid, simple, preternaturally alert, free from any psychologistic traces. The volume's cover has a mask from a Roman fresco associated with initiation into the cult of Dionysus staring out wide-eyed. "Lizards with sails are screaming to her while the green spade/opens a whole nursery, a powdered vault of spotted dinosaur eggs/racked with loose hexes of eight,..." (from "The Young Professor of Wyoming Wears a Red-Banded Skin of Snake on the Spirit Finger of Her Right Hand That Shakes...") This could all be some kind of surrealism, except that it's more complex than surrealism. It doesn't just try to net the wayward detritus of dreams, but also to continuously evoke irrational but keenly felt fears, mysteries, and hopes.
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8. Groom Falconer
by Norman Dubie
Paperback: 1 Pages (1990-05)
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5-0 out of 5 stars one of the most important books of the 20th century
Norman Dubie's poetry is so extraordinary and perceptive that its influence and value cannot be measured and so it is rather often ignored by poets too insecure or uninformed to recognize their debt. Groom Falconer offers individual poems worth reading again and again, and the entire book is a coherent, cogent work of art.Groom Falconer ... Read more


9. Radio Sky
by Norman Dubie
 Paperback: 54 Pages (1992-05)
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10. The Illustrations: Poems (Selected Papers)
by Norman Dubie
 Hardcover: 70 Pages (1977-03)
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11. Everlastings
by Norman Dubie
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12. City of the Olesha Fruit
by Norman Dubie
 Hardcover: 75 Pages (1979-03)
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13. Popham of the New Song
by Norman Dubie
 Paperback: 21 Pages (1975)

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14. Biography - Dubie, Norman (Evans) (1945-): An article from: Contemporary Authors
by Gale Reference Team
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This digital document, covering the life and work of Norman (Evans) Dubie, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 1450 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

  • Place and date of birth and death (if deceased)
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15. My dubious calculus. (Norman Dubie) (Poetry Today): An article from: The Antioch Review
by William Slattery
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This digital document is an article from The Antioch Review, published by Antioch Review, Inc. on January 1, 1994. The length of the article is 3234 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Norman Dubie's poetry conveys images which suggest stories but do not resolve into clear meanings, as shown by criticism of three of his books. Horror and beauty abound in 'The Springhouse' and 'Groom Falconer' while 'Radio Sky' has love and tenderness. The images convey experience as raw meaning, leaving a frustrated sense of trying to figure it all out, as if failing a course in calculus.

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Title: My dubious calculus. (Norman Dubie) (Poetry Today)
Author: William Slattery
Publication: The Antioch Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1994
Publisher: Antioch Review, Inc.
Volume: v52Issue: n1Page: p132(9)

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16. Selected and New Poems
by Norman Dubie
 Hardcover: 145 Pages (1983-10)
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17. The Illustrations: Poems.
by Norman. DUBIE
 Paperback: Pages (1977)

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18. ODALISQUE IN WHITE. Two Poems.
by Norman. (SIGNED) DUBIE
 Paperback: Pages (1978-01-01)

Isbn: 0932968015
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19. Radio Sky
by Norman Dubie
 Paperback: Pages (1991)

Asin: B000PUH5Y4
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20. The Springhouse
by Norman Dubie
 Hardcover: 56 Pages (1986-04)
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Isbn: 0393023028
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