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Brass Knuckles
by
Stuart Dybek
The poems in this powerful first book have grown from the American urban experience of the last half of this century, a time of decay and diminishing possibilities; they vary from realistic vignettes of working-class Chicago neighborhoods to prose poems elegant and spare in their surrealism. At the middle of this book and at the thematic center of the collection is Dybek's...more
Paperback, 69 pages
Published
January 1st 2004
by Carnegie-Mellon University Press
(first published 1979)
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i met Stuart Dybek at a poetry reading and made a complete ass of myself. i get so giddy and silly around authors that i admire. i no longer speak to them -- for my sake as well as theirs. get the signature, smile, nod, walk away.
I wasn't a huge fan of the first section of the book, but the later poems, especially the prose poems included are fantastic.
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Stuart Dybek has published three short story collections: Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, The Coast of Chicago, and I Sailed With Magellan; and two volumes of poetry: Brass Knuckles and Streets in Their Own Ink. He has been anthologized frequently and regularly appears in magazines such as the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine and the Paris Review.
He has received numerous awards, incl...more
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