Poetry. The poems in Norman Dubie's INSOMNIAC LIAR OF TOPO behave much like that of a linear accelerator: exploding worlds into each other, from the opposite poles, with tremendous speed, to discover the worlds within. Populated by an eccentric menagerie of mystics, holy men, and brilliant artists, Dubie brings together the grotesque and beautiful, to call forth the sincere within the context of war and human dissonance. Dubie, a master purveyor of trickster protest and psychological release, uses an array of voices to highlight the splinter and shatter of wartime, of destroyed art and sacred texts, and the specific and various destructions that have made humans themselves aliens of their own planet.

Author City: Tempe, AZ USA

Norman Dubie is the author of twenty books of poetry and served as poetry editor for The Iowa Review and director of the graduate poetry workshop at the University of Iowa. He helped found the MFA program at Arizona State University in Tempe, where he teaches as a regents professor for creative writing.