\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026#147;[Dobyns\u0026#8217; poetry] has a somber, eccentric beauty not quite like anything else around these days.\u0026#8221;\u0026#151;\u003cI\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026#147;[Dobyns] blends philosophical musings with daft, deft metaphors and a cheeky vernacular.\u0026#8221;\u0026#151;\u003cI\u003ePoetry\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet and best-selling novelist Stephen Dobyns employs everything from Atlantic seascapes to werewolf dreams to explore issues public and private. By turns tough and tender, Dobyns\u0026#8217; plainspoken poems create and reflect a worldview full of possibilities. He contrasts the quotidian with the exalted, always delivered in a precise, familiar voice. Daily walks become meditations on politics, philosophy, literature, and the larger considerations of existence and being.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eStephen Dobyns\u003c/B\u003e is the author of twenty-one books of fiction, including the popular Saratoga crime series, twelve books of poetry, and a collection of nonfiction. Dobyns has worked as a reporter for \u003cI\u003eThe Detroit News\u003c/I\u003e and has taught at the University of Iowa, Sarah Lawrence College, Warren Wilson College, Syracuse University, and Boston University. He lives in Rhode Island.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003c/div\u003e
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