Dig Safe

Stuart Dischell's poetry is passionate, darkly comic, heartbreaking, and always unpredictable. Dig Safe reaffirms why he commands high regard among poets and critics and popularity among his readers. Taking as their metaphor the markings that construction workers use to warn of utilities below street level—these new poems pierce the body politic as they evoke interconnection and misalliance, movement and inhabitation.

Stuart Dischell's work has appeared in many publications, including The New Republic, Partisan Review, and Ploughshares. He has been awarded the Pushcart Prize and a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature. He teaches at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

The Report

The Lost City

Children of the City

A Fugitive Heart

Thin Song of the Leaky Faucet

As I Dispose of an Old Encyclopedia

The Door

A Tenant at Will

Neighbor to What Happens

Poem for Jack

The Moth

The Squanderers

Flirt

An Adult Situation

Mine and Not Mine

A Mass Hallucination of Motels

The Art of the Possible

The Restaurant by the Pier

Without People

Dweller

The Elevation

Basho, Buson, Issa, Greensboro

Wind on the Moon

Full Circle

Words for Arborists

Crooked Wood

The Puppet's Complaint

The Hundred Pieces

Confession of a Ghost

Imperfections of the Skin

Stevedore

A Traveler

Prague

Acts of Love

Chorus of the Horses

The Fisherman and the Dryad

The Landscape Artist

Half Himself

Marina Azul

From the Anthology of Dreams of Death: Harlequin Dream

From the Anthology of Dreams of Death: Maritime Dream

From the Anthology of Dreams of Death: Aerial Dream

The Figure