“stephen dobyns”

Velocities presents a selection of poems spanning more than twenty-five years in the career of Stephen Dobyns, one of the finest and most original poets of our age. This volume brings together new poems and a generous selection of work from Dobyns's seven previously published collections.... More

'This is a very dark and very funny novel, which is, at once, a mystery, a defense of western civilization, a cartoon strip, an examination of how to live, a thriller, an attack on western civilization, a farce, and a study on the nature of evil. Imagine an urban Twin Peaks but with an intellectual ... More

In this new edition of "Best Words, Best Order," Stephen Dobyns further explains the mystery of the poet's work. Through essays on memory and metaphor, pacing, and the intricacies of voice and tone, and thoughtful appreciations of Chekhov, Ritsos, Mandelstam, and Rilke, Dobyns guides readers and wri... More

Three young girls vanish in a small New York town. As each corpse is found, missing her left hand, the search for a madman gets underway, and suspicion shrouds the quiet streets of Aurelius as its residents realize that a monster lives among them.For decades, the faded, rural upstate New York villag... More

Thomas Lux has called Stephen Dobyns aone of the very finest poets writing in America today. His poems are brave, ravenous, intensely moving, and utterly his own.a The poems in his new volume, "Mystery, So Long," use both free verse and traditional forms to examine lifeas complications and peculiar ... More