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The Lookout Man

By: Stuart Dischell

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Sometimes elegiac, sometimes deadly comic, but always vivid and surprising, The Lookout Man embodies the mastery, spirit, and craft that we have come to depend upon in Stuart Dischell's poetry. In a mix of recognizable lyric forms, and set in diverse locales from the middle of the ocean to the summit of Mont Blanc, from America's back yard to the streets of international cities, there is a hesitant, almost encroaching wisdom in The Lookout Man, alternately nostalgic and fierce in nature. The poet doesn't shy away from taking on the big, risky, some would say played-out topics, but the poems never lead us where we expect to go. Rather, Dischell allows messy contradictions to exist in the drama and action of the poems, even while maintaining the beautiful form and music of polished verse. In a wonderful example that closes the book and that typifies Dischell's work, he writes, "I will ask the dogwoods to remind me // "What it means to live along the edges of the woods / To be promiscuous but bear white flowers.""--

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0226817830

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9780226817835

Standing on Z

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Standing on Z

By: Stuart Dischell

Stuart Dischell's new chapbook sings of adventuresome travel and camaraderie. On the waterfront, we find drunken captains, dissolute merchants and, improbably, a momentary restful pause. In the countryside and in the city, Dischell focuses not on any landscape or sight, but on the way one's friendships frame experience, expanding it beyond known dimensions.

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0877758050

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9780877758051

Children with Enemies

By: Stuart Dischell

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Children with Enemies

By: Stuart Dischell

In his fourth book of poems, Stuart Dischell is part elegist, part fabulist, part absurdist; or, as one critic puts it, "a lovely, encompassing mirror of our little but to us so urgent human life." Dischell is a poet who writes at the edges of imagination, memory, and experience, and the poems here are by turns socially outward and inwardly reflective, or darkly comic and heartbreakingly remorseful--but always beautifully crafted and unpredictable. In Dischell's hands, the poems in Children with Enemies come alive to the complications and implications of what it means to be human.

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022649859X

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9780226498591

Backwards Days

By: Stuart Dischell

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Backwards Days

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Sly, comic, inventive, and exuberant, the brokenhearted lyrics and dark parables of Backwards Days are cast in the spirit and craft Stuart Dischell’s poetry is known for. In this, his fourth full-length collection, he revs up both music and experience and writes poems of emotional intensity that chronicle the restlessness of desire. Sometimes grim, ever buoyant and hopeful, even in the most sorrowful or macabre situations, the poems of Backwards Days are most particularly about the movement of time, physical movement, and the movement of the heart. Through landscapes both real and of the psyche, they live on the edge of an elusive understanding never quite gotten right.

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1440619050

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Dig Safe

By: Stuart Dischell

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Dig Safe

By: Stuart Dischell

Stuart Dischell's poetry is passionate, darkly comic, heartbreaking, and always unpredictable. Dig Safe reaffirms why he commands high regard among poets and critics and popularity among his readers. Taking as their metaphor the markings that construction workers use to warn of utilities below street level—these new poems pierce the body politic as they evoke interconnection and misalliance, movement and inhabitation.

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1101175230

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27 Views of Greensboro

The Gate City in Prose & Poetry

By: Michael Parker,Fred Chappell,Lee Zacharias,Stuart Dischell,Richie Zweigenhaft,Diya Abdo,John L. Robinson,Allen Johnson,Edward Cone,Quinn Dalton,Drew Perry,Jim Dodson,Maria C. Johnson

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The Gate City in Prose & Poetry

By: Michael Parker,Fred Chappell,Lee Zacharias,Stuart Dischell,Richie Zweigenhaft,Diya Abdo,John L. Robinson,Allen Johnson,Edward Cone,Quinn Dalton,Drew Perry,Jim Dodson,Maria C. Johnson

27 VIEWS of GREENSBORO: The Gate City in Prose & Poetry is an anthology of the city once known for textile mills and as a train hub, now known for diversity, education, and sports. Twenty-seven journalists, novelists, poets, and essayists offer a broad and varied picture of life, present and past, in the Southern city—from the city’s brief stint as capital of the Confederacy to stories of its famous and less well-known civil rights protests, from reflections on Greensboro's overwhelming growth to a profile of the man who created Vicks VapoRub.

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Eno Publishers

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0989609227

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9780989609227

Backwards Days

By: Stuart Dischell

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Backwards Days

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Another set of antidotal lyrics and story-poems from Stuart Dischell Sly, comic, inventive, and exuberant, the brokenhearted lyrics and dark parables of Backwards Days are cast in the spirit and craft Stuart DischellÂ's poetry is known for. In this, his fourth full-length collection, he revs up both music and experience and writes startling poems of emotional intensity that chronicle the restlessness of desire. Sometimes grim, ever buoyant and hopeful, even in the most sorrowful or macabre situations, the poems of Backwards Days are most particularly about the movement of time, physical movement, and the movement of the heart. Through landscapes both real and of the psyche, they live on the edge of an elusive understanding never quite gotten right.

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Children with Enemies

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The Lookout Man

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The Lookout Man

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Vivid poems full of drama and action by award-winning poet Stuart Dischell. Sometimes elegiac, sometimes deadly comic, and always transformative, The Lookout Man embodies the energy, spirit, and craft that we have come to depend upon in Stuart Dischell’s poetry. Inhabiting a mix of lyric structures, these poems are set in diverse locales from the middle of the ocean to the summit of Mont Blanc, from the backyards of America to the streets of international cities. There is a hesitant, almost encroaching wisdom in The Lookout Man, as Dischell allows his edgy vision and singular perspectives to co-exist with the music of his poems. In lines that close the book and typify Dischell’s work, he writes, “I will ask the dogwoods to remind me // What it means to live along the edges of the woods, / To be promiscuous but bear white flowers.”

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Dig Safe

By: Stuart Dischell

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Dig Safe

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The Gate City in Prose & Poetry

By: Michael Parker,Fred Chappell,Lee Zacharias,Stuart Dischell,Richie Zweigenhaft,Diya Abdo,John L. Robinson,Allen Johnson,Edward Cone,Quinn Dalton,Drew Perry,Jim Dodson,Maria C. Johnson

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The Gate City in Prose & Poetry

By: Michael Parker,Fred Chappell,Lee Zacharias,Stuart Dischell,Richie Zweigenhaft,Diya Abdo,John L. Robinson,Allen Johnson,Edward Cone,Quinn Dalton,Drew Perry,Jim Dodson,Maria C. Johnson

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Book's by Stuart Dischell

The Lookout Man

The Lookout Man

Standing on Z

Standing on Z

Children with Enemies

Children with Enemies

Backwards Days

Backwards Days

Dig Safe

Dig Safe

27 Views of Greensboro

27 Views of Greensboro

Backwards Days

Backwards Days

Children with Enemies

Children with Enemies

The Lookout Man

The Lookout Man

Dig Safe

Dig Safe

27 Views of Greensboro

27 Views of Greensboro

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