Stephen Dobyns has published ten books of poetry and twenty novels. His books of poetry include Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides (Penguin, 1999); Common Carnage (1996); Velocities: New and Selected Poems, 1966-1992 (1994); Cemetery Nights (1987), which won a Melville Cane Award; Black Dog, Red Dog (1984), which was a winner in the National Poetry Series; Heat Death (1980); and Concurring Beasts (1972), which was the 1972 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets. His most recent novels are Boy in the Water (Holt/Metropolitan, 1999), The Church of Dead Girls (1997), Saratoga Fleshpot (1995), The Wrestler’s Cruel Study (1993), and Saratoga Haunting (1993). His novels have been translated into more than ten languages. Dobyns is also the author of a collection of short stories, Eating Naked (2000) and a book of essays, Best Words, Best Order (1996). Among his many honors and awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities, including the University of Iowa and Boston University. Stephen Dobyns lives in Boston with his wife and three children.
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Links:
Cortland Review Interview with Stephen Dobyns – text with a selection of audio clips
Sidelights – Informative Biography Research Center article on Stephen Dobyns
The Afterlife: Letter to Stephen Dobyns II – Hayden Carruth’s poem written TO Stephen Dobyns, from American Poetry Review
The Muse and the Contemporary Classic – Scholarly article on the work of Stephen Dobyns by Dana Wilde, from The Antigonish.
An Interview with Stephen Dobyns – From Ploughshares, interviewed by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Stephen Dobyns Discusses The Church of Dead Girls – Interviewed by Joseph Mallozzi
Alsop Review Interview with Stephen Dobyns
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Poems On-Line:
Santiago: Five Men in the Street: Number One
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