{"product_id":"common-ground-poems-paperback","title":"Common Ground: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDabney Stuart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in Dabney Stuart's \u003ci\u003eCommon Ground \u003c\/i\u003ecenter on a family--the bonds that unite it and the forces that break it apart. Taking as their subject friendship, air travel, men's room graffiti, conversation, the American West, the circus, and other polite topics, these poems nonetheless return again and again, often hauntingly, to the family, to childhood, to fathers and sons, to divorce. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Turnings,\" a father paces the halls of his home, long after his children and wife are asleep: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the years of his growing loss he would walk\u003cbr\u003e Through the rooms of the house after midnight, \u003cbr\u003e The ice tinkling in a glass of bourbon\u003cbr\u003e Accompanying him. Each door he passed\u003cbr\u003e Through seemed to yawn him in, the quiet bodies\u003cbr\u003e Of his sons unrecognizable in their dark beds. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e................................................................................ \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen he looked down at his wife's body in another room\u003cbr\u003e The night itself seemed to yawn, \u003cbr\u003e so he went out into it, \u003cbr\u003e Stood at the edge of the wide yard he'd tended for ten years, \u003cbr\u003e Discovered the next largest darkness of all.\u003cbr\u003e You are eating me alive, woman, he said softly, \u003cbr\u003e Hearing himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems in this volume are affecting, honest attempts of the poet to find common ground with his reader; to express emotion, yearning, and confusion in a way that is readily accessible and true.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDabney Stuart\u003c\/b\u003e, professor of English at Washington and Lee University, is the editor of \u003ci\u003eShenandoah.\u003c\/i\u003e He is the author of eight books of poetry, including\u003ci\u003e Common Ground, Don't Look Back, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNarcissus Dreaming, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as a book of criticism on Nabokov. His work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker, Ploughshares, the Southern Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. Stuart has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.22 x 9 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 1982\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757688226080,"sku":"9780807110249","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9a40938019eb3446f7bc24110f3ec33d.webp?v=1780109074","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/common-ground-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}