Alehouse Sonnets

by Dubie, Norman
ISBN: 9780887485046
Availability:
  • Online Only
$8.49
Used - Trade Paperback - 9780887485046

Available Offers


Pickup at {0} Out of stock at {0} Check other stores
FREE -
Ship to Me
$3.99 -

Overview

In this sequence of fifty poems, Norman Dubie has conversations with the nineteenth-century British essayist William Hazlitt. Marvin Bell says of this book: "It's not simply that a sizeable portion of Hazlitt's life is also Dubie's, but that Dubie's experience, 153 years later, was imbedded in Hazlitt's. The very manner of these fifty 'sonnets' suggests it: an almost 'innocent' attention to the sacred and profane, and exceptional combination of energy and restraint, a 'purity' owing to Dubie's ability to measure the lives of Hazlitt and himself without extraneous judgments. This is a remarkable sequence--for its amazing historical sense, for its special vocabulary and collections of objects, and finally for its psychological rightness. It is the talent of a secret voice."
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Dubie, Norman
  • ISBN: 9780887485046
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.10 x 0.20
  • Number Of Pages: 56
  • Publication Year: 2009
Language: English