{"product_id":"the-volcano-norman-dubie-9781556593260","title":"The Volcano","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"One of our premier poets.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dubie's dramatic poetry seeks to represent our deepest moments of perception, struggle, and revelation. Out of his voice come the voices of multitudes. Yet his achievement and vision are singular.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e called Norman Dubie's poems \"extraordinary,\" and the evocative poems of \u003ci\u003eThe Volcano\u003c\/i\u003e certainly are: lyrically intense, hallucinatory, worldly, and precise. In a five-word poem, \"A New Moon,\" he laments, \"I will not see it.\" But there is much he \u003ci\u003edoes\u003c\/i\u003e see: DNA ladders, Sasquatch, Pontius Pilot's mealy figs, and \"a calliope of turtles \/ bobbing in the North Atlantic.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreen fruit on a card table.\u003cbr\u003eAt the roadside, a small boy\u003cbr\u003egnawing on corn smiles\u003cbr\u003ewith efficient hunger--no one else\u003cbr\u003eis alive for a hundred square miles--\u003cbr\u003ethe road ruptured above and below him--\u003cbr\u003ethe jaguar smiles back\u003cbr\u003ein a white cap of ash\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ethat is also the night . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNorman Dubie\u003c\/b\u003e founded the MFA program at Arizona State University. He lives in Tempe, Arizona.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Norman Dubie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1556593260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556593260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/21\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2010 pg. 79","brand":"Norman Dubie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939612131583,"sku":"9781556593260","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_2d7ac8d7-aa0e-4ccd-9b22-d526635989e0.jpg?v=1681442508","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-volcano-norman-dubie-9781556593260","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}