Norman Dubie

Norman Dubie(April 10, 1945--February 20, 2023) was an Americanpoetfrom Barre, VT.

Life

He was the author of twenty-eight collections of poetry. Dubie's work often assumes historical personae and has been included inThe New Yorker,Ploughshares,The Paris Review,FIELD,Narrative,The American Poetry Review,The Fiddlehead,andBlackbird,an online journal of literature and the arts. His work has been included in numerous Norton anthologies of poetry.

With his latest collection of poems,The Quotations of Bone,published in 2015 byCopper Canyon Press,Dubie was the international recipient of the 2016Griffin Poetry Prize.The poems in this collection confront viciousness in its many forms.

Awards

Dubie was the recipient of numerous honors and awards. These include fellowships from theNational Endowment for the Artsand theIngram Merrill Foundation,the Bess Hokin Prize fromPoetryMagazine and the Modern Poetry Association, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award. In 2002, he won the PEN Center USA prize for his collection,The Mercy Seat: Collected and New Poems.Dubie is a graduate ofGoddard Collegeand theIowa Writer's Workshop.He taught in the graduate Creative Writing Program atArizona State University,inTempe, Arizona,where he wasRegents' Professorof English.

The Tucson-based band Calexico have stated that Dubie's poetry was very influential on their albumCarried to Dust,particularly the song "Two Silver Trees".

Selected books

• Selected & New Poems (1986)ISBN978-0-393-30140-3
• Groom Falconer (1990)ISBN0-393-30570-8
• Radio Sky (1992)ISBN978-0-393-30852-5
• The Mercy Seat: Collected and New Poems 1967-2001 (Copper Canyon Press, 2001)ISBN1-55659-212-4
• Ordinary Mornings of a Coliseum (Copper Canyon Press, 2004)ISBN1-55659-213-2
• The Insomniac Liar of Topo (Copper Canyon Press,2007)
• The Volcano (Copper Canyon Press,2010)
• Quotations of Bone (Copper Canyon Press,2015)

Anthologies

• The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets
• The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
• David Walker, ed. (2006).American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets.Oberlin College Press.ISBN978-0-932440-28-0.

Sources

• Academy of American Poets

External links

• TheNorman Dubie Papersare housed at the University of Iowa Special Collections & University Archives.
• Norman Dubie'sPoetry Foundation profile
• The Spirit Tablets at Goa Lake
• Norman Dubie's poem "Gotterdammerung" inGulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts(25.1).
• Brief biography
• Biography, poetry excerpts from Griffin Poetry Prize website
• Interview withThe Rusty Toque
• Interview with Nancy Mitchell and Adam Tavel forPlume Poetry