Light Years: New and Selected Poems - Hardcover

Stuart, Dabney

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807118982 ISBN 13: 9780807118986

Verlag: Louisiana State University Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

Dabney Stuart's subjects over the last thirty years are as disparate as the forms he chooses for them. His range includes baseball (and other games), geography, the movies, history, sideshows, domestic life - a world, in short, that is rich and various.
Amid this exploration, Stuart has sustained certain concerns. The evasive and unsettling nature of family relationships threads consistently through the poems collected in Light Years: the poet uncovers deepening emotional and psychological complexities. There are celebrations of his children, his own sonship, his grandparents and grandchildren. Through it all, as he says in "The Opposite Field," the haunting "image / of [a] possible life / watches from a distance."
Stuart rings evocative changes on recurrent image patterns, too. Birds are central to his work, for instance, and sing often; water flows frequently; music sounds in places as apparently incongruous as a row of cornstalks. Dreams, and dreaming, inform many poems, their precision of detail becoming part of the sharply observed physical world Stuart renders.
Whatever else he is up to, Stuart always seeks the play in language, a source of delight and solace even in the most unlikely contexts. Indeed, as he writes in "Coming To," When he listens to his words play/ back, they shimmer oddly, on/ edge - a stranger talking - / as if they have gone/ through something he has/ no other knowledge of/ and brought it back:/ his life.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Dabney Stuart is professor of English at Washington and Lee University and editor of Shenandoah.

Dabney Stuart is the author of fourteen books of poetry, including Settlers and Long Gone; three books of short stories; and a book of literary criticism. His writing has appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Paris Review, Southern Review, Yale Review, and Gettysburg Review. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Bess Hokins Prize from Poetry, a Virginia Individual Artist Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors. He lives in Lexington, Virginia.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Louisiana State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0807118982
• ISBN 13: 9780807118986
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 196
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