The Man Who Loves Cezanne: Poems

ISBN: 0807129003

Author: Stuart, Dabney

Condition: New

About the Author Dabney Stuart is the author of fourteen books of poetry, including Settlers and Long Gone; three books of short stories; and a book of criticism. His writing has appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Paris Review, Southern Review, Yale Review, and Gettysburg Review. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Bess Hokins Prize from Poetry, a Virginia Individual Artist Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors. He lives in Lexington, Virginia. Product Description The Man Who Loves Cézanne, a quiet but authoritative new collection from Dabney Stuart, blends an assortment of landscapes, themes, forms, and tones. The poems vary in subject-World War II, browsing library stacks, a family reunion, sky diving, a visit to a museum, and cancer, among other topics-and unfold to suggest a gradual acceptance of the unavoidable vicissitudes, frictions, and griefs of human life. With allusions to writers ranging from Shakespeare to Jung, and settings such as the southwestern desert of the United States, the volume reflects an overarching concern for art, both poetic and visual, and the untoward, difficult commitment of the life of the artist. The Man Who Loves Cézanne is a delicate mingling of traditional and more open forms, creating a tension that is always attractive and often powerfully moving. Review He imagined her strewing the wilted ones in the desert for the wind to scatter, some settling among the ruins of farmhouses before they dried into the dust surrounding.