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Books by Stephen Dobyns
  | | The Day's Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech(1st Edition) by Stephen Dobyns Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2016 by Boa Editions Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-942683-16-2, ISBN: 1-942683-16-2 "This new collection from best-selling poet and novelist Stephen Dobyns focuses on the hard, ephemeral truth of mortality, including the section Sixteen Sonnets for Isabel” about the recent death of his wife; the poem "Laugh," a portrait of the late poet Hayden Carruth; and the poignant parable of a horse in a bar. In true Dobyns fashion, these poems grip and guide readers into a state of empathy, ultimately raising the question of how ..." |
 | | Next Word, Better Word(1st Edition) The Craft of Writing Poetry by Stephen Dobyns Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2011 by St. Martin's Griffin ISBN-13: 978-0-230-62180-0, ISBN: 0-230-62180-5 "This accessible writer's guide provides a helpful framework for creating poetry and navigates contemporary concerns and practices. Stephen Dobyns, author of the classic book on the beauty of poetry, Best Words, Best Order, moves into new terrain in this remarkable book. Bringing years of experience to bear on issues such as subject matter, the mechanics of poetry, and the revision process, Dobyns explores the complex relationship betwee ..." |
 | | Is Fat Bob Dead Yet?(Reprint) A Novel by Stephen Dobyns Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2016 by Blue Rider Press ISBN-13: 978-0-399-57634-8, ISBN: 0-399-57634-7 "Stephen Dobyns--whom Stephen King has described as "the best of the best"--is back with his newest novel Is Fat Bob Dead Yet?, a comic suspense novel about a small-time con operation, a pair of combative detectives, and the pride, revenge, and deception that guide us all--Richard Russo meets Elmore Leonard. In the seaport town of New London, Connecticut, newcomer Connor Raposo has just witnessed a gruesome motorcycle accident on Bank ..." |
 | | Is Fat Bob Dead Yet?(1st Edition) A Novel by Stephen Dobyns Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2015 by Blue Rider Press ISBN-13: 978-0-399-17145-1, ISBN: 0-399-17145-2 "Stephen Dobyns--whom Stephen King has described as "the best of the best"--is back with his newest novel Is Fat Bob Dead Yet?, a comic suspense novel about a small-time con operation, a pair of combative detectives, and the pride, revenge, and deception that guide us all--Richard Russo meets Elmore Leonard. In the seaport town of New London, Connecticut, newcomer Connor Raposo has just witnessed a gruesome motorcycle accident on Bank ..." |
 | | Saratoga Payback(1st Edition) (Charlie Bradshaw Mystery) by Stephen Dobyns Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2017 by Blue Rider Press ISBN-13: 978-0-399-57657-7, ISBN: 0-399-57657-6 "The latest installment in Stephen Dobyns's Charlie Bradshaw mysteries, Saratoga Payback follows the latest exploits of Saratoga Springs' most unusual and sardonic detective. Ever since the cops revoked his private investigator's license, Charlie Bradshaw has been adjusting to life as a regular senior citizen. But reading, sitting around the house, and making amateur home repairs is a far cry from his past life as Saratoga Springs' most ..." |
 | | The Church of Dead Girls(Reprint) A Thriller by Stephen Dobyns Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2015 by Blue Rider Press ISBN-13: 978-0-14-310782-8, ISBN: 0-14-310782-8 "One by one, three young girls vanish in a small town in upstate New York. With the first disappearance, the townspeople begin to mistrust outsiders. When the second girl goes missing, neighbors and childhood friends start to eye each other warily. And with the third disappearance, the sleepy little town awakens to a full-blown nightmare. "The Church of Dead Girls" is a novel that displays Stephen Dobyns remarkable gifts for exploring hu ..." |
 | | Winter's Journey by Stephen Dobyns Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2010 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-305-5, ISBN: 1-55659-305-8 "[Dobyns’ poetry] has a somber, eccentric beauty not quite like anything else around these days.”The New York Times Book Review [Dobyns] blends philosophical musings with daft, deft metaphors and a cheeky vernacular.”Poetry Poet 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’ plainspoken poems create and ref ..." |
 | | Velocities New and Selected Poems: 1966-1992 (Poets, Penguin) by Stephen Dobyns Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1994 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-058651-0, ISBN: 0-14-058651-2 "“Stephen Dobyns is one of the very finest poets writing in America today. His poems are brave, ravenous, intensely moving, and utterly his own.” –Thomas Lux Velocities presents a selection of poems spanning more than twenty-five years in the career of Stephen Dobyns, one of the finest and most original poets of our age. This volume brings together new poems and a generous selection of work from Dobyns’s seven previously published collec ..." |
 | | Boy in the Water(Reprint) A Novel by Stephen Dobyns Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2015 by Blue Rider Press ISBN-13: 978-0-14-218182-9, ISBN: 0-14-218182-X "Another bucolic fall in northern New Hampshire, and the semester is under way at Bishop’s Hill Academy. But this year the start of school has been less than tranquil. The new headmaster, Jim Hawthorne, has liberal ideas that the staff find far from welcome;. eloquent as he is on the subject of honor, rumor has it he’s taken this job to escape his past. And Hawthorne isn’t the only uneasy newcomer. There’s Jessica Weaver, a stripper at f ..." |
 | | Best Words, Best Order(2nd Edition) Essays on Poetry, by Stephen Dobyns Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2003 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-6147-1, ISBN: 1-4039-6147-6 "As its title implies, Stephen Dobyns's rigorous collection of essays about poetry celebrates Coleridge's dictum that poetry is the best words in the best order. Dobyns's probing examinations of the elements of poetry--metaphor, pacing, tone--and his study of the evolution of free verse are not for Sunday-sunset versifiers. They are strenuous, meaty, and wholly satisfying fare, intended for serious students of poetry. Dobyns, t ..." |
 | | The Porcupine's Kisses(1st Edition) (Poets, Penguin) by Stephen Dobyns, Howie Michels Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2002 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-200244-5, ISBN: 0-14-200244-5 "Stephen Dobyns is one of America's most respected poets; his manner is tart and often sardonic, his language tough, funny, yet at heart profoundly humane. In his eleventh book of poetry he pushes the boundaries of conventional collections, presenting an intriguing two-part volume. The first section contains ruminative prose poems, dealing with a man who is looking back over the successes and failures of his life, that are intercut with ..." |
 | | The Wrestler's Cruel Study(Reprint) by Stephen Dobyns Paperback, 426 Pages, Published 1995 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-31212-6, ISBN: 0-393-31212-7 "Wrestling, kidnapping, subplots from the Brothers Grimm, and a young man's search for his missing fiancee are only some of the elements of Stephen Dobyns's dazzling new novel. Fun and puns mingle with daring make-believe. Larger-than-life characters play out the crucial human questions: How do we live? How do we handle our demons?" |
 | | Boy In The Water(1st Edition) by Stephen Dobyns Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1999 by Viking ISBN-13: 978-0-670-88689-0, ISBN: 0-670-88689-0 |
 | | DJB04638 Church of Dead Girls, The(Updated) by Stephen Dobyns Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1998 by Penguin Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-14-027391-5, ISBN: 0-14-027391-3 "The Church Of Dead Girls" |
 | | The Church of Dead Girls(Reprint) A Novel by Stephen Dobyns Paperback, 388 Pages, Published 1998 by Holt Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-5104-9, ISBN: 0-8050-5104-X "A literary chameleon, Stephen Dobyns is as well known for his poetry as he his for his taut and chilling mysteries. The two disciplines collide in The Church of Dead Girls, a lyrical novel that inspired Stephen King to comment, "If ever there was a tale for a moonless night, a high wind and a creaking floor, this is it ... I don't expect to read a more frightening novel this year." Aurelius is a drowsy bedroom community in upstat ..." |
 | | Knowing Knott(1st Edition) Essays on an American Poet by Star Black, Thomas Lux, Timothy Liu, Michael Waters, Stephen Dobyns, Steven Huff Paperback, 126 Pages, Published 2017 by Tiger Bark Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9976305-3-4, ISBN: 0-9976305-3-1 "Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Essay. Edited by Steven Huff. Bill Knott (1940 -2014) was one of the most brilliant and iconoclastic American poets of our time, who liked to think of himself as an outsider even while publishing sixteen books in his lifetime and wielding enormous influence on at least two generations of poets. To his colleagues, students and friends he could be unpredictable, mercurial, reclusive or tenderly kind, but ever ..." |
 | | The Church of Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 1997 by Metropolitan Books Henry Holt ISBN-13: 978-0-670-87742-3, ISBN: 0-670-87742-5 |
 | | Saratoga Backtalk(Reprint) A Charlie Bradshaw Mystery by Stephen Dobyns Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1995 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-024708-4, ISBN: 0-14-024708-4 "Saratoga Springs, the famous racing center, is again the setting for Stephen Dobyns's eighth mystery featuring Charlie Bradshaw, local cop turned private eye. This time, since Charlie is about to go on jury duty, his off-beat sidekick, Victor Plotz - "a high-on-pragmatism, low-on-ethics kind of guy" - agrees to poke around when wealthy horse owner Bernard Logan is kicked to death by a horse. Logan's death surely looks like an accident. ..." |
 | | Charlie Bradshaw Mystery Ser. Saratoga Bestiary : A Charlie Bradshaw Mystery by Stephen Dobyns Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1990 by Penguin (Non-Classics) ISBN-13: 978-0-14-010613-8, ISBN: 0-14-010613-8 "Charlie Bradshaw is a tough, compassionate, if unlikely hero in his small town ofSaratoga Springs." |
 | | The Two Deaths of Señora Puccini(1st Edition) by Stephen Dobyns Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 1988 by Viking Adult ISBN-13: 978-0-670-81980-5, ISBN: 0-670-81980-8 "Inside an opulent home, as a Latin American Civil War rages outside, Senora Puccini listens as Dr. Daniel Pacheco weaves the story of his obsession with her for his rapt guests, until she provides her own violent cathartic end to the story" |
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