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he doesn’t seek an easy audience. he is a serious reader’s poet and a poet’s poet. he has commented on his approach to the lyric, however, his work is closer to the narrative form. his stories in verse are condensed to fit stanzas that rarely extend more than seven pages.

son of a nurse, dubie growing up would listen to gruesome stories from the emergency room and operating theater. his father was a minister. dubie cites both parents as early inspirations for his poetry. many of his poems are situated during war time, the crimean war or the united states civil war. his stories are anecdotal of victims and those innocent of the war.

there are odes and lyrical elegies to historic personages from the arts and sciences, from the mathematician godel to a description of frieda kahlo’s ride on the trolley the day of her accident. the stories read like pages taken from books by famous writers or monographs on their work, stories we never heard before, but still ring with an authenticity, an authenticity audaciously borrowed.
much about the poet startles us, like the birth happening in a wooded area that we can’t help staring at, as the moral mystery of the erotic and violence disturb us. dubie situates his incidents in places deep in the past and in other countries so that we can only watch. call our place, the mercy seat.

as we become comfortable with some story, again we are startled as the narrator of the story turns out to be a woman, instead of, as we believed, a man, less a transgression of gender than a violation of expectation, and further, of our belief. dubie’s narrator can be anyone. dubie leaves us incredulous, but more knowledgeable.

in 1992, dubie published a long prose poem, THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN, under a wallace stevens inspired subtitle: (APHORISMS OF MR. CANON ASPIRIN), resembling the ragbag ezra pound called robert browning’s SORDELLO. my skill as a solver of anagrams leaves much to be desired. i patiently wait for some other reader to unscramble MR CANON ASPIRIN for me, my guess is that it is an anagram. CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN, included here, is kind of a poet’s journal. the narrator says much about the writing of poetry, and how to read poetry, offering some excellent examples, including suggestions on how to read some of the work by the poet, norman dubie. and true to the journalistic form, the narrator ranges a variety of topics one would expect to find by someone who spends a lifetime with books.

also included here is a revised THE DUCHESSE’S RED SHOES, published in a chapbook with the book title poem, ODALISQUE IN WHITE, which appears, also revised, in THE MERCY SEAT under the title THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S ANNUAL.

from his single volumes, there is ample sampling of his poems. THE EVERLASTINGS, for example, is represented with seventeen poems from a total of twenty three poems. the six omitted are worth reading. readers finding the poems of norman dubie for the first time here should seek out one or more of his earlier single volumes, if you want to read more of his work. his work of the last century, of which makes up most of THE MERCY SEAT, i highly recommend.


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The Mercy Seat Collected and New Poems 19672001 Norman Dubie 9781556592126 Books Reviews

Norman Dubie is a brilliant poet who understands history as well as language. This book is a treasure chest of wonders.
Norman Dubie has consistently created astonishing and exciting poems over the span of his entire career. Not only technically brilliant and aesthetically sophisticated, his work is mind-expanding and spirit-enlarging. Each poem arrives with the intensity and surprise of a striking foreign film created by a genius director--offering a superbly lit, wonderfully cast, deeply engaging, and profoundly fulfilling experience.
he doesn’t seek an easy audience. he is a serious reader’s poet and a poet’s poet. he has commented on his approach to the lyric, however, his work is closer to the narrative form. his stories in verse are condensed to fit stanzas that rarely extend more than seven pages.

son of a nurse, dubie growing up would listen to gruesome stories from the emergency room and operating theater. his father was a minister. dubie cites both parents as early inspirations for his poetry. many of his poems are situated during war time, the crimean war or the united states civil war. his stories are anecdotal of victims and those innocent of the war.

there are odes and lyrical elegies to historic personages from the arts and sciences, from the mathematician godel to a description of frieda kahlo’s ride on the trolley the day of her accident. the stories read like pages taken from books by famous writers or monographs on their work, stories we never heard before, but still ring with an authenticity, an authenticity audaciously borrowed.
much about the poet startles us, like the birth happening in a wooded area that we can’t help staring at, as the moral mystery of the erotic and violence disturb us. dubie situates his incidents in places deep in the past and in other countries so that we can only watch. call our place, the mercy seat.

as we become comfortable with some story, again we are startled as the narrator of the story turns out to be a woman, instead of, as we believed, a man, less a transgression of gender than a violation of expectation, and further, of our belief. dubie’s narrator can be anyone. dubie leaves us incredulous, but more knowledgeable.

in 1992, dubie published a long prose poem, THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN, under a wallace stevens inspired subtitle (APHORISMS OF MR. CANON ASPIRIN), resembling the ragbag ezra pound called robert browning’s SORDELLO. my skill as a solver of anagrams leaves much to be desired. i patiently wait for some other reader to unscramble MR CANON ASPIRIN for me, my guess is that it is an anagram. CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN, included here, is kind of a poet’s journal. the narrator says much about the writing of poetry, and how to read poetry, offering some excellent examples, including suggestions on how to read some of the work by the poet, norman dubie. and true to the journalistic form, the narrator ranges a variety of topics one would expect to find by someone who spends a lifetime with books.

also included here is a revised THE DUCHESSE’S RED SHOES, published in a chapbook with the book title poem, ODALISQUE IN WHITE, which appears, also revised, in THE MERCY SEAT under the title THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S ANNUAL.

from his single volumes, there is ample sampling of his poems. THE EVERLASTINGS, for example, is represented with seventeen poems from a total of twenty three poems. the six omitted are worth reading. readers finding the poems of norman dubie for the first time here should seek out one or more of his earlier single volumes, if you want to read more of his work. his work of the last century, of which makes up most of THE MERCY SEAT, i highly recommend.