"The New York Times" called Norman Dubie "one of our
premier poets," and his new book proves the point. This
"broken fantasia" addresses humankind's engagement
with spiritual practice. Backdropped by politics and religion,
Dubie searches for independent, individual meaning through the
lives of eccentric and visionary holy men such as Meister Eckhart,
Rumi, the Tibetan Tashi Lama, the mathematician Ramanujan, Michel
de Nostradam and the Egyptian recluse, Cyril. "I adore how
they are all ignoring us," Dubie writes, "with an
absolute genius-like snoring." Norman Dubie, a practitioner of
Tibetan Buddhism, is a Regents' professor at Arizona State
University and the author of 18 books of poetry. His work has been
translated into 30 languages.
