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Double Life: Poems  
Author: Daniel Tobin
ISBN: 0807129569
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Double Life: Poems

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Daniel Tobin's stunning new collection, Double Life, takes its name from a vision of humanity at once passionately earthbound and spurred by the metaphysical. These poems range from haunting meditations on the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch to an astonishing polyphonic sequence based on the life of Father Bartolome de Las Casas. Between these two longer orchestrations appear works both musically diverse and startling in their formal virtuosity, as attuned to Plato, the Bible, Dante, Shakespeare, Keats, and the natural world as to TV talk shows, the news, physics, movies, and fast-food restaurants. From the persona of an Irish-Catholic Brooklyn youth on a school trip to Spain to that of a grown man of the suburbs "hollowed by doubt ... it's only the observance / of words I keep now to stay the soul," Tobin shows us the search for a way to encompass the world, turning Christian motifs toward new meanings.

     



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