Stephen Dobyns
Author
Series
American poets continuum ; 156
Publisher
BOA Editions Ltd
Language
English
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Description
"This new collection from best-selling poet and novelist Stephen Dobyns focuses on the hard, ephemeral truth of mortality, including the section "Sixteen Sonnets for Isabel" about the recent death of his wife; the poem "Laugh," a portrait of the late poet Hayden Carruth; and the poignant parable of a horse in a bar. In true Dobyns fashion, these poems grip and guide readers into a state of empathy, ultimately raising the question of how one lives...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Humorous, ironic, furious, sad, and wise, [these poems] ... are delivered in a precise, straightforward voice unafraid of pointing out that the emperor isn't wearing any clothes and revealing the often incomprehensible contraditions of human behavior"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
"Tucker Morgan, a Vietnam veteran and a casualty of life, wants to take his two-year-old son and find a ghost town where he can make his own rules. But his scam to make some quick money and run, runs into some ruthless and violent men." --
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
In a war-torn Latin American capital, a group of old friends gather at the home of Dr. Daniel Pacheco for their semiannual reunion. Kept prisoners by an emergency curfew, they wander into revelations of brutality and deception. The evening's centerpiece is the host's gradual disclosure of his obsession with Señora Puccini, whom he met as a young socialite. Now his housekeeper and sexual slave, she quietly serves dinner as Pacheco details the limitless...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Bradshaw is spending his 41st birthday in New York, trying to track down Sam, the son of his great high school love. Sam has gotten himself involved in a big-time drug deal, and everyone -- from Sam to the New York cop on the case -- wishes Charlie would go back to Saratoga to do his sleuthing. But a combination of stubbornness and savvy -- to say nothing of Sam's enticing girlfriend -- keeps the small-town cop deep in the Big City mystery....
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
A racing horse famous for biting people's backsides is bought for a million dollars. The new owner is overjoyed until PI Victor Plotz notices the horse has stopped biting. So what? So, maybe someone switched horses at the last moment, an observation that puts Plotz's life in danger.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
The decapitation of a former jockey hiding out in his house is just the beginning of Charlie Bradshaw's troubles. An old man dies in a fire, murder finds a stable owner, Charlie's Volkswagen is blown to bits. And while tracking down the vicious killer, the ex-cop turned private eye must prove that he has no mob connections.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
Arson, widespread arson, isn't the result of some nut who likes to watch the flames. It's planned. Purposefully. The police know this. Firemen know it. Lieutenant Francis Lazard of the Boston Arson Squad knows it. Lazard was thoroughly professional. His leg (injured in a fire some years ago), and the cane he had to use because of the injury, didn't get in his way. Firefighting is a dangerous business. And more so when not just fighting the fires is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Consider the mysteries of the heart, that blood-pumping organ and, in Stephen Dobyns' latest collection of poems, the hapless romantic of our interior landscape. "The Himalayas Within Him" finds Heart worrying about the sound of his own heartbeat, wondering why it doesn't "blare like a quartet of trombones" as it reflects his "ardent complexity." In "Goodbye to the Hands That Have Touched Him" Heart, after suffering many sleepless nights, decides...