Stephen Dobyns [1941 - ]
American writer

Page created by Liz McDaniel

Their mouths were slightly open and their lips pulled back. One could see their small teeth, imagine the dark dryness of their tongues, the darkness of their silent throats. How their teeth must have glittered in the candlelight. And their eyes, half open as if the girls were drowsing, they too must have shone.

– Church of Dead Girls (4)

Links:

Poets.org provides a brief bio and bibliography of Dobyns in addition to links to other poets, award information, and a listening booth.

Contemporary Poetry.com:

A contemporary American poetry website with some texts of poetry.

Academy of American Poets

Novels:

A Man of Little Evils (1973)

Dancer with One Leg (1983)

A Boat Off the Coast (1987)

Cold Dog Soup (1988)

The Two Deaths of Senora Puccini (1988)

After Shocks / Near Escapes (1991)

The Wrestler's Cruel Study (1993)

The Church of Dead Girls (1997)

Boy in the Water (1998)

Non-Fiction:

Best Words, Best Order: Essays On Poetry (1996)

Poetry:

Concurring (1972)

Griffon: Poems (1976)

Heat Death: Poems (1980

The Balthus Poems (1982)

Cemetery Nights (1987)

Velocities: New And Selected Poems 1966-1992 (1994)

Black Dog, Red Dog (1997)

Common Carnage (1997)

Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides (1999)

Eating Naked: And Other Stories (2000)

The Porcupine's Kisses (2002)