Streets in their own ink
Department
English
Document Type
Book
Files
Description
"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)."
Call number in WMU's library
PS3554.Y3 S74 2004
ISBN
0374270953
Publication Date
2004
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City
New York
Disciplines
English Language and Literature
Citation for published book
Dybek, Stuart. Streets in Their Own Ink. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. Print.
Recommended Citation
Dybek, Stuart, "Streets in their own ink" (2004). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 357.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/357