""Streets in Their Own Ink" . . . has a gritty realism infused with
a sense of the marvelous." --Edward Hirsch, "The Washington Post"
In a city like that one might sail
through life led by a runaway hat.
The young scattered in whatever directions
their wild hair pointed and, gusting
into one another, they fell in love.
-from "Windy City"
In his second book of poems, Stuart Dybek finds vitality in the
same vibrant imagery that animates his celebrated works of fiction.
The poems of Streets in Their Own Ink map the internal geographies
of characters who inhabit severe and often savage city streets,
finding there a tension that transfigures past and present, memory
and fantasy, sin and sanctity, nostalgia and the need to forget.
Full of music and ecstasy, they consecrate a shadowed, alternate
city of dreams and retrospection that parallels a modern city of
hard realities. Ever present is Dybek's signature talent for
translating "extreme and fantastic events into a fabulous
dailiness, as though the extraordinary were everywhere around us if
only someone would tell us where to look" (Geoffrey Wolff).
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