Research Guides and Class Pages: Annual Tabet Poetry Reading: Stuart Dybek

About the Poet

Stuart Dybek (born April 10, 1942) is an American writer of fiction and poetry. Dybek's two collections of poems are Brass Knuckles (1979) and Streets in Their Own Ink (2004). His fiction includes Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, The Coast of Chicago, I Sailed With Magellan, a novel-in-stories, Paper Lantern: Love Stories, and Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories. His work has been anthologized and has appeared in magazines such as Harper's, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Tin House, Ploughshares, and Triquarterly.

For more information on the author, please visit https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/stuart-dybek.

Works to Check out

The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek
ISBN: 0312422822
Publication Date: 2003-11-01
The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek's classic story collection. A child's collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly rightfielder's inexplicable death turns him into a martyr to baseball. Strains of Chopin floating down the tenement airshaft are transformed into a mysterious anthem of loss. Combining homely detail and heartbreakingly familiar voices with grand leaps of imagination, The Coast of Chicago is a masterpiece from one of America's most highly regarded writers.
Brass Knuckles by Stuart Dybek
ISBN: 0887484158
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
The poems in this powerful first book have grown from the American urban experience of the last half of this century, a time of decay and diminishing possibilities; they vary from realistic vignettes of working-class Chicago neighborhoods to prose poems elegant and spare in their surrealism. At the middle of this book and at the thematic center of the collection is Dybek's remarkable reworking of the myth of Persephone, in which the American goddess learns to prefer the underworld and has fallen in love with Death.
Paper Lantern by Stuart Dybek
Call Number: PS3554.Y3 A6 2015
ISBN: 9780374146443
Publication Date: 2014-06-03
Operatically dramatic and intimately lyrical, grittily urban and impressionistically natural, the varied fictions in Paper Lantern all focus on the turmoil of love as only Dybek can portray it.

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