{"product_id":"the-volcano","title":"The Volcano","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"One of our premier poets.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dubie's dramatic poetry seeks to represent our deepest moments of perception, struggle, and revelation. Out of his voice come the voices of multitudes. Yet his achievement and vision are singular.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e called Norman Dubie's poems \"extraordinary,\" and the evocative poems of \u003ci\u003eThe Volcano\u003c\/i\u003e certainly are: lyrically intense, hallucinatory, worldly, and precise. In a five-word poem, \"A New Moon,\" he laments, \"I will not see it.\" But there is much he \u003ci\u003edoes\u003c\/i\u003e see: DNA ladders, Sasquatch, Pontius Pilot's mealy figs, and \"a calliope of turtles \/ bobbing in the North Atlantic.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreen fruit on a card table.\u003cbr\u003eAt the roadside, a small boy\u003cbr\u003egnawing on corn smiles\u003cbr\u003ewith efficient hunger--no one else\u003cbr\u003eis alive for a hundred square miles--\u003cbr\u003ethe road ruptured above and below him--\u003cbr\u003ethe jaguar smiles back\u003cbr\u003ein a white cap of ash\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ethat is also the night . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNorman Dubie\u003c\/b\u003e founded the MFA program at Arizona State University. He lives in Tempe, Arizona.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Norman Dubie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44816590405674,"sku":"9781556593260","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/the-volcano-3205027.jpg?v=1789040348","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/the-volcano","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}