{"product_id":"9781556594830","title":"The Quotations of Bone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2016 Griffin International Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Norman Dubie is one of our premier poets.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dubie's poems are unmatched in their incandescent imaginings, gorgeous language, and fearless tracking of the inexorably turning wheel of existence.\"—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dubie [is] one of the most powerful and influential American poets.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The poems in Dubie’s newest collection [\u003ci\u003eThe Quotations of Bone\u003c\/i\u003e] are deeply oneiric, governed by vigorous leaping energy that brings the intimate into contact with history, and blurs the distinction between what is real because it once happened, and what is real because of the emphatic manner in which it has been felt. Longtime admirers of Dubie will certainly recognize the familiar mind and spirit able to punch through the surface of experience and into deep psychic quandary with a single revelatory gesture (Did you ever want to give someone \/\/ All your money?)-but that tendency is greatly amplified here. One feels the unconscious mind working ceaselessly, even playfully, alongside memory, imparting the poems as if with a strange and consoling living spirit. This makes for a heightened sense of mystery and mortality in poems of private experience. And when such an impulse is aligned with public history—the division of Germany, say, or the acceleration of the planet’s ecological crisis—it is outright haunting. Dubie’s uncontested mastery of the lyric poem has, in this collection, broken into strange and revelatory territory.”—Griffin International Poetry Prize Judges’ Citation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his twenty-ninth collection of poems, Norman Dubie returns to a rich, color-soaked vision of the world. Strangeness becomes a parable for compassion, each poem leading the reader to an uncommon way of understanding human capacities. In the futuristic sphere of \u003ci\u003eThe Quotation of Bone\u003c\/i\u003e, the mind wanders meditatively into an imaginative and uncontainable history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Quotations of Bone\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe meal of bone was a soured milk—\u003cbr\u003ejust the heads of giant elk\u003cbr\u003ein a dark circle looking down\u003cbr\u003eon a wooden bowl of soda crackers\u003cbr\u003eand pork. One large knife\u003cbr\u003eresting in the meat\u003cbr\u003eof a woodsman's calloused hand.\u003cbr\u003eHe grins at his woman\u003cbr\u003ewho is slowly poisoning him\u003cbr\u003ewith the stringy resins of morning glory.\u003cbr\u003eA tasteless turpentine with pink pig.\u003cbr\u003eThe speeches of bone\u003cbr\u003eare matrimonial in early autumn—\u003cbr\u003eby January there's a froth of blood\u003cbr\u003eat a nostril.\u003cbr\u003eHe thinks a long icicle is buried in his ear.\u003cbr\u003eShe thinks D. H. Lawrence was a grim buccaneer.\u003cbr\u003eI hate most men. Adore the few named Lou.\u003cbr\u003eOne small addendum:\u003cbr\u003ethe dead elk are grinning too.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNorman Dubie\u003c\/b\u003e is a Regents professor 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":47057216241904,"sku":"9781556594830","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556594830_p0.jpg?v=1763756885","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556594830","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}