\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Norman Dubie is one of our premier poets.\"\u0026#151;\u003cI\u003eThe New York Times\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dubie's poems are unmatched in their incandescent imaginings, gorgeous language, and fearless tracking of the inexorably turning wheel of existence.\"\u0026#151;\u003cI\u003eBooklist\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dubie [is] one of the most powerful and influential American poets.\"\u0026#151;\u003cI\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his twenty-ninth collection of poems, Norman Dubie returns to a rich, color-soaked vision of the world. Strangeness becomes a parable for compassion, each poem leading the reader to an uncommon way of understanding human capacities. In the futuristic sphere of \u003cI\u003eThe Quotation of Bone\u003c/I\u003e, the mind wanders meditatively into an imaginative and uncontainable history.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eThe Quotations of Bone\u003c/B\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cI\u003eThe meal of bone was a soured milk\u0026#151;\u003cBR\u003ejust the heads of giant elk\u003cBR\u003ein a dark circle looking down\u003cBR\u003eon a wooden bowl of soda crackers\u003cBR\u003eand pork. One large knife\u003cBR\u003eresting in the meat\u003cBR\u003eof a woodsman's calloused hand.\u003cBR\u003eHe grins at his woman\u003cBR\u003ewho is slowly poisoning him\u003cBR\u003ewith the stringy resins of morning glory.\u003cBR\u003eA tasteless turpentine with pink pig.\u003cBR\u003eThe speeches of bone\u003cBR\u003eare matrimonial in early autumn\u0026#151;\u003cBR\u003eby January there's a froth of blood\u003cBR\u003eat a nostril.\u003cBR\u003eHe thinks a long icicle is buried in his ear.\u003cBR\u003eShe thinks D. H. Lawrence was a grim buccaneer.\u003cBR\u003eI hate most men. Adore the few named Lou.\u003cBR\u003eOne small addendum:\u003cBR\u003ethe dead elk are grinning too.\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eNorman Dubie\u003c/B\u003e is a Regents professor at Arizona State University. He lives in Tempe, Arizona.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e
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