Stephen Dobyns is the author of 23 novels, including the popular "Saratoga" crime novels, 14 books of poetry, one book of short stories, and two collections of essays on poetry. His books of poetry include Winter’s Journey (Copper Canyon Press, 2010); Mystery, So Long (2005); The Porcupine’s Kisses (2002); Do They Have a Reason? (2000); Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides (Penguin, 1999); Common Carnage (1996); Velocities: New and Selected Poems 1966-1992 (1994); Cemetery Nights (1987), which won a Melville Cane Award; Black Dog, Red Dog (1984), which was a winner in the National Poetry Series; Heat Death (1980); and Concurring Beasts (1972), which was the 1972 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets. His novels include Boy in the Water (Holt/Metropolitan, 1999); The Church of Dead Girls (1997); Saratoga Fleshpot (1995); The Wrestler’s Cruel Study (1993); and Saratoga Haunting (1993). His novels have been translated into more than ten languages. Among his many honors and awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Dobyns has worked as a reporter for Detroit News, and has written review for such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Times Literary Supplement. He has taught at various academic institutions, including Sarah Lawrence College, the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, the University of Iowa, Syracuse University, and Boston University. He currently lives in Westerly, Rhode Island.
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CONTENTS Part One 1-Stories 2-Stars 3-Wisdom 4-Parable: Horse 5-Mrs. Brewster' Second Grade Class Picture 6-Furniture 7-Water-Ski 8-Leaf Blowers 9-Parable: Heaven 10-Good Days Part Two: Sixteen Sonnets for Isabel 1-Monochrome 2-Song 3-Technology 4-Skyrocket 5-Lizard 6-Swap Shop 7-Alien Skin 8-Pain 9-Niagara Falls 10-The Wide Variety 11-Skin 12-Never 13-Casserole 14-Inexplicably 15-Prague 16-Gardens Part Three 1-The Miracle of Birth 2- The Inquisitor 3-Fly 4-The Poet's Disregard 5-Parable: Gratitude 6-Sincerity 7-Statistical Norm 8-Turd 9-Parable: Friendship 10-The Dark Uncertainty 11-No Simple Thing Part Four: Reversals 1-Narrative 2-Determination 3-Jump 4-What Happened? 5-Philosophy 6-Melodrama 7-Exercise 8-Failure 9-Constantine XI 10-Literature 11-Jism 12-Valencia 13-Thanks Part Five 1-Persephone, Etc. 2-Crazy Times 3-Parable: Fan/Paranoia 4-Winter Wind 5-So It Happens 6-Tinsel 7-Parable: Poetry 8-Scale 9-Recognitions 10-Laugh
