30 March 2007 | Vol. 7, No. 1
Elegy for Robert Creeley
The sun broke through…
I read aloud on the balcony
your poem for the 'two wives,'
a finch flew
through the ice shavings
of the sprinkler system
to my railing—it bowed deeply
twice
in gratitude
for what you had written
is my best explanation?
About the author:
Norman Dubie is the author of more than seventeen books, including The Mercy Seat: Collected & New Poems: 1967-2001 and Ordinary Mornings of a Coliseum. Dubie has received numerous national grants and prizes, including the Bess Hokin Award of the Modern Poetry Association. He has authored many individual publications and is a regular contributor to many magazines, including the New Yorker and American Poetry Review. Dubie is included in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Ingram-Merrill Foundation. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Arizona.
For further reading:
See the complete list of work by Norman Dubie at 42opus. Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 7, No. 1, where "Elegy for Robert Creeley" ran on March 30, 2007. List other work with these same labels: poetry, elegy.
