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Stuart Dybek
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication date
October 15, 2004
Pages
73
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780374270957
ISBN-10
0374270953
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 8.25 in.
Weight
0.50 lbs.
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Out of Print
Original list price
$20.00
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
The second collection of poems by the author of I Sailed with Magellan takes the reader into the city streets to highlight the lyricism and beauty that lives there, counterposing the harsh realities of urban life with the subtler pleasures.
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In a city like that one might sail
through life led by a runaway hat.
The young scattered in whatever directions
their wild hair pointed and, gusting
into one another, they fell in love.
--from "Windy City"
In his second book of poems, Stuart Dybek finds extraordinary vitality in the same vibrant imagery that animates his celebrated works of fiction. A brilliant and deft enactment of place, these poems map the internal geographies of characters who inhabit severe and often savage city streets, finding there a tension that transfigures past and present, memory and fantasy, sin and sanctity, nostalgia and the need to forget. Full of music and ecstasy, the poems of Streets in Their Own Ink consecrate a shadowed, alternate city of dreams and retrospection that parallels a modern city of hard realities. Throughout, one finds poetry enlivened by Dybek's signature talent for translating "extreme and fantastic events into a fabulous dailiness, as though the extraordinary were everywhere around us if only someone would tell us where to look" (Geoffrey Wolff).
through life led by a runaway hat.
The young scattered in whatever directions
their wild hair pointed and, gusting
into one another, they fell in love.
--from "Windy City"
In his second book of poems, Stuart Dybek finds extraordinary vitality in the same vibrant imagery that animates his celebrated works of fiction. A brilliant and deft enactment of place, these poems map the internal geographies of characters who inhabit severe and often savage city streets, finding there a tension that transfigures past and present, memory and fantasy, sin and sanctity, nostalgia and the need to forget. Full of music and ecstasy, the poems of Streets in Their Own Ink consecrate a shadowed, alternate city of dreams and retrospection that parallels a modern city of hard realities. Throughout, one finds poetry enlivened by Dybek's signature talent for translating "extreme and fantastic events into a fabulous dailiness, as though the extraordinary were everywhere around us if only someone would tell us where to look" (Geoffrey Wolff).
Editions
Hardcover
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from Farrar Straus & Giroux (October 15, 2004)
9780374270957 | details & prices | 73 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $20.00
About: Collects poems that highlight the lyricism and beauty of the city, counterposing the harsh realities of urban life with the subtler pleasures.
About: Collects poems that highlight the lyricism and beauty of the city, counterposing the harsh realities of urban life with the subtler pleasures.
Paperback
from Farrar Straus & Giroux (March 21, 2006)
9780374529918 | details & prices | 73 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.25 in. | 0.25 lbs | List price $12.00
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