Cemetery Nights - Stephen Dobyns - Bog

"In Cemetery Nights, Dobyns explores a full range of human experience, from the fabulous storytelling of our dreams to the mute, explosive passions of domestic life, from vital distortions of familiar myths to strange tableaux of creation and death. Most of the poems are narratives-often frightening and sometimes downright funny-spun with a dark extravagance and aimed, with striking exactness, at our essential lives. The world of Cemetery Nights is haunted by regret, driven by desire and need, illuminated by daring make-believe; Mr. Dobyns has created here a remarkable bridge between pure entertainment and deep psychological insight"--