Streets in their own ink / Stuart Dybek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dybek, Stuart, 1942-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life--Poetry.

City and town life.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 73 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2004]

Summary:

In his second book of poems, Stuart Dybek finds extraordinary vitality in the same vibrant imagery that animates his celebrated works of fiction. A brilliant and deft enactment of place, these poems 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, the poems of Streets in Their Own Ink consecrate a shadowed, alternate city of dreams and retrospection that parallels a modern city of hard realities. Throughout, one finds poetry enlivened by 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).

Notes:

"First edition, 2004."

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0374270953

OCLC:

54537206