{"product_id":"9781556593260","title":"The Volcano","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"One of our premier poets.\"— \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"— \u003ci\u003eAmerican Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e called Norman Dubie's poems \"extraordinary,\" and the evocative poems of \u003ci\u003eThe Volcano\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003edoes\u003c\/i\u003e see: DNA ladders, Sasquatch, Pontius Pilot's mealy figs, and \"a calliope of turtles \/ bobbing in the North Atlantic.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eGreen fruit on a card table.\u003cbr\u003eAt the roadside, a small boy\u003cbr\u003egnawing on corn smiles\u003cbr\u003ewith efficient hunger—no one else\u003cbr\u003eis alive for a hundred square miles—\u003cbr\u003ethe road ruptured above and below him—\u003cbr\u003ethe jaguar smiles back\u003cbr\u003ein a white cap of ash\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003ethat is also the night . . .\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eNorman Dubie\u003c\/b\u003e founded the MFA program at Arizona State University. He lives in Tempe, Arizona.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055772909808,"sku":"9781556593260","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556593260_p0.jpg?v=1763756854","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556593260","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}