Long Gone : Poems
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0807121215
ISBN-13
9780807121214
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Imprint
Louisiana State University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 1st, 1996
Print length
72 Pages
Weight
128 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 14.10 x 0.70 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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From its haunted opening to the complex affirmation of its final lines, this profound collection by Dabney Stuart presents a palimpsest of the spirit in the modern age. With jagged syncopations, lyrical stop-time, and a kind of elegiac swing, these poems spiral through multiple dimensions of time, memory, and emotion.
From its haunted opening to the complex affirmation of its final lines, this profound collection by Dabney Stuart presents a palimpsest of the spirit in the modern age. With jagged syncopations, lyrical stop-time, and a kind of elegiac swing, these poems spiral through multiple dimensions of time, memory, and emotion, from post-World War II America to the South Pacific-evoking perspectives of the psyche as brooding and cryptic as the Antarctic.
Long Gone nimbly weaves carnal and familial love, the search for lost innocence, and the epistemology of memory into moments of hallucinatory focus where insight comes, and goes, like light on water. In ""Double Exposures"" a photograph of a child and grandmother reveals the slowly accreting carapace of history, memory, and habit, that cast of ourselves, that might seal us off from the purity of our beginnings.
Yet for this speaker even to guess at that unnameable beginning is in itself an illumination, one that leads to an instant of faith in the progress of our spirits and their ultimate ""implausible flight.""
Long Gone is a troubling, spellbinding collection by a poet at the height of his powers; in it, readers encountering Dabney Stuart for the first time as well as those familiar with his other books of poetry and fiction will find cause to celebrate.
Long Gone nimbly weaves carnal and familial love, the search for lost innocence, and the epistemology of memory into moments of hallucinatory focus where insight comes, and goes, like light on water. In ""Double Exposures"" a photograph of a child and grandmother reveals the slowly accreting carapace of history, memory, and habit, that cast of ourselves, that might seal us off from the purity of our beginnings.
Yet for this speaker even to guess at that unnameable beginning is in itself an illumination, one that leads to an instant of faith in the progress of our spirits and their ultimate ""implausible flight.""
Long Gone is a troubling, spellbinding collection by a poet at the height of his powers; in it, readers encountering Dabney Stuart for the first time as well as those familiar with his other books of poetry and fiction will find cause to celebrate.
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