The Man Who Loves Cezanne

by Stuart, Dabney

• ISBN13: 9780807129005
• ISBN10: 0807129003
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

The Man Who Loves Cezanne, a quiet but authoritative new collection from Dabney Stuart, blends an assortment of landscapes, themes, forms, and tones. The poems vary in subject -- World War II, browsing library stacks, a family reunion, sky diving, a visit to a museum, and cancer, among other topics -- and unfold to suggest a gradual acceptance of the unavoidable vicissitudes, frictions, and griefs of human life. With allusions to writers ranging from Shakespeare to Jung, and settings such as the southwestern desert of the United States, the volume reflects an overarching concern for art, both poetic and visual, and the untoward, difficult commitment of the life of the artist. The Man Who Loves Cezanne is a delicate mingling of traditional and more open forms, creating a tension that is always attractive and often powerfully moving. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Dabney Stuart is the author of fourteen books of poetry, including Settlers and Long Gone; three books of short stories; and a book of criticism. His writing has appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Paris Review, Southern Review, Yale Review, and Gettysburg Review. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Bess Hokins Prize from Poetry, a Virginia Individual Artist Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors. He lives in Lexington, Virginia

Table of Contents

Light Touch	1	(1)
Someone Alone	2	(1)
Walking to School	3	(2)
Here, Promising	5	(1)
An Old Song	6	(1)
Free Will	7	(2)
Schoolchildren; 5 June	9	(2)
Lives of Their Own	11	(1)
A Shadow They Cast	12	(1)
Shelf Life	13	(2)
Weather Channel	15	(2)
Cover Story	17	(2)
Family Reunion	19	(2)
Refugees	21	(2)
Village	23	(2)
The Shadow in the Others Heart	25	(2)
Sky Dive	27	(3)
Working Through	30	(2)
Santa Claus in the Desert	32	(2)
The Million-Dollar Road	34	(2)
Jackalope	36	(2)
Time	38	(2)
Hindsight	40	(1)
Winter Letter	41	(2)
Hummer	43	(2)
The Long View	45	(1)
A Place to Come To	46	(3)
The Man Who Loves Cézanne	49	(2)
Gradual	51	(2)
El Malpais: The New Cairn	53	(2)
High Desert Snow	55	(2)
The Same Difference	57	(1)
Traveling Light	58