Debra Kang Dean is the author of two full-length collections of poetry from BOA Editions, News of Home and Precipitates, as well as a previous chapbook of poems, Back to Back (North Carolina Writers' Network, 1997). She teaches in the brief-residency MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University and has lived in Bloomington, Indiana, since 2005.
"'Once you know what you're seeing, / the hour of innocence is
past, ' Debra Kang Dean tells us in this remarkable new collection
of poems. We see each side of that construction here, the world
(and the poet's experiences in it) gazed upon with both wonder and
knowledge. Whether she is considering a bird or a distant planet or
a microbrew, Dean shows us multiple levels: a nature photograph,
for example, is both conventional in its beauty, but awe inspiring
in the effort required to capture it. Somehow, Fugitive Blues moves
us from the ordinary to the extraordinary, without leaving the
ordinary behind. Quietly, these poems amaze." --Phil Memmer, author
of The Storehouses of the Snow: Psalms, Parables, and Dreams
"Debra Dean's Fugitive Blues confronts 'this theater under the
stars' with evocative poems that combine a microscopic
attentiveness to language and to image with a macroscopic
sensibility of our cosmic precariousness. Never daunted, Dean
trudges through this 'ankle-wrenching terrain' where nonetheless we
are 'word-stirred' by beauty." --Nathan Hoks, author of The Narrow
Circle
"In Fugitive Blues, Debra Kang Dean's poems are at once small and
large, honoring the ordinary even as they consider the ontological.
This is a poet who understands there is an 'unkillable law: Some
thing must die/that others might live, ' and yet celebrates life
with odes to beer and the brown-headed cowbird. Exquisitely imaged
and skillfully crafted, these are poems a reader can move into and
inhabit for a long while." --Sarah Freligh, author of Sort of Gone
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