Norman Dubie

Norman Dubie (April 10, 1945 - February 20, 2023) was an American poet.

Norman Dubie. Courtesy Blackbird.

Life

Youth and education

Dubie was born in Barre, Vermont.

Dubie was a graduate of Goddard College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Career

Dubie last taught in the graduate creative writing Program at Arizona State University, in Tempe, where he was Regents professor of English.

He was the author of 28 collections of poetry. Dubie's poetry appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Paris Review, FIELD, and Blackbird, an online journal of literature and the arts. His work has been included in numerous Norton anthologies of poetry.

writing

Dubie's work often assumes historical personae.

The poems in his last collection, The Quotations of Bone (2015), confront viciousness in its many forms.

Recognition

Of Politics and Art - Norman Dubie-0

Dubie was the international recipient of the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize for his collection of poems, The Quotations of Bone, published in 2015 by Copper Canyon Press,

Dubie received numerous fellowships (including from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation), the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry Magazine 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.

Billy Collins selected Dubie's poem "Of Politics and Art" for his anthology, Poetry 180.

"Two Silver Trees" by Calexico

In popular culture

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

Publications

Poetry

• The Horsehair Sofa. Plainfield, VT: Goddard Journal Publications, 1969.
• Alehouse Sonnets. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971.
• The Prayers of the North American Martyrs. Lisbon, IA: Penumbra Press, 1975.
• Popham of the New Song. Port Townsend, WA: Graywolf, 1975.
• In the Dead of the Night. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975.
• The Illustrations. New York: G. Braziller, 1977.
• A Thousand Little Things, and other poems. Omaha, NB: Abbatoir Editions/University of Nebraska, 1978.
• Odalisque in White: Two poems. Seattle, WA: Porch Publications, 1979.
• The City of the Olesha Fruit. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979.
• The Everlastings. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980.
• The Window in the Field. Copenhagen, Denmark: Razorback Press, 1981.
• Selected and New Poems. New York: Norton, 1983.
• The Springhouse: Poems. New York: Norton, 1986.
• Groom Falconer: Poems. new York: Norton, 1989.
• Radio Sky: Poems. New York: Norton, 1991.
• The Clouds of Magellan. Santa Fe, NM: Recursos Press, 1991.
• The Mercy Seat: Collected and new poems. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2001.
• Ordinary Mornings of a Coliseum. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2004.
• The Insomniac Liar of Topo. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2007.
  • The Volcano. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2010.
• Quotations of Bone. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2015.

Anthologized

• The American Poetry Anthology: Poets under Forty. New York: Avon, 1975.
• Poetry as Process: Fifty Contemporary American Poets (edited by Alberta Turner). New York: McKay, 1977.
• The Face of Poetry: One Hundred Poets. Arlington, VA: Gallimaufry, 1977.
• Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (edited by Stuart Friebert and David Young) . London: Longman, 1983.
• The Morrow Anthology of Young American Poets (edited by Smith and Bottoms). New York: Morrow, 1984.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy the Poetry Foundation.

Michael Wiegers of Copper Canyon Press reads from The Quotations of Bone by Norman Dubie

Mono - Poems by Norman Dubie 03.14.16

Audio / video

• Norman Dubie: A reading (audiobook). Tucson, AZ: Tucson Poetry Center, 1977.

See also

• List of U.S. poets

References

Fonds

The Norman Dubie Papers are housed at the University of Iowa Special Collections & University Archives.

External links

Poems

• "Of Politics and Art" at Poetry 180
• Norman Dubie b. 1945 at the Poetry Foundation
• The Spirit Tablets at Goa Lake (long poem).
• Norman Dubie profile & 6 poems at the Academy of American Poets
• Norman Dubie profile & 5 poems at Blackbird, VII:1
• Norman Dubie profile & 6 poems at Blackbird, X:1

Books

• Norman Dubie at Amazon.com

About

• Norman Dubie at the Griffin Poetry Prize