Streets in Their Own Ink: Poems

Author:	Dybek, Stuart
Binding:	Paperback
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Overview

ISBN:	9780374529918
Publisher:	Farrar Straus Giroux
Language:	English
Page Count:	73
Publication Date:	3/1/2006
Size:	8.50" l x 5.50" w x 0.50"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Poetry	Subjects & Themes

In his second book of poems, Stuart Dybek finds vitality in the same vibrant imagery that animates his celebrated works of fiction. The poems of Streets in Their Own Ink 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, they consecrate a shadowed, alternate city of dreams and retrospection that parallels a modern city of hard realities. Ever present is 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).