Background
Nurkse, DEnnis was born on December 13, 1949 in New York City. Son of Ragnar and Henriette Nurkse.
(Nurkse delivers, as always, narratives and lyrics of spar...)
Nurkse delivers, as always, narratives and lyrics of sparkling intelligence and wit, complicated by emotional dramas which engage, alarm, and earn our attention and concerns every step of the way.
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(D. Nurkse’s Burnt Island explores tragedy both grand and ...)
D. Nurkse’s Burnt Island explores tragedy both grand and intimate, in city and country, in our own troubled moment and across the greater scope of geological time. Arranged in three “suites” of lucid, often heart-wrenching verse, the book begins with a city under siege, in a group of poems that becomes a subtle homage to New York after 9/11–a metaphorical “burnt island,” where diggers doze on their shovels, citizens contribute bottles of water, M&M’s, and casseroles to recovery efforts, and survivors, mesmerized by the photos of the missing, compare them “scar by scar with the faces of the living.” Nurkse then takes up the journey of a couple starting again in nature at a specific place called Burnt Island, where the elements instruct them, seeming to mirror their conflicts and strife. Finally, in a charming and profound series of poems centered on marine ecology, he finds the infinite in the infinitesimally small, and offers us, in sparkling, mysterious verses, the strange comfort that comes with observing the life of the ocean. we are like you because we are born by the billions and float into the open ocean– . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . we live another second or much less, less than a blink, until the code comes to know itself and the mind dreams another mind that will survive it there, in the bright curtain of spray. (from “The Granite Coast”) From the Hardcover edition.
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(poetry, Voices Over Water is the record of the lives of a...)
poetry, Voices Over Water is the record of the lives of a married couple who emigrate from Estonia to Canada during the first half of this century. The woman, a preacher's daughter and musician from coastal Estonia, is the narrator for the first five poems of Part One, Leaving Estonia. Her husband's voice interweaves with hers for the rest of the section. The man, an estate foreman, merchant and farmer, is the speaker in Part Two, High Canada. The woman's voice returns as the major narrator in Part Three, Easter Snow. Voices Over Water is dedicated to Viktoria and Villem Nurkse. The events in this book are fictitious.
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Nurkse, DEnnis was born on December 13, 1949 in New York City. Son of Ragnar and Henriette Nurkse.
Bachelor magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1970.
Lecturer Wagner College, Staten Island, New York, 1988. Program officer Defense for Children United States of America, New York City, 1987-1992. Member faculty The Writer's Voice, 1997-2000.
Lecturer New School University, since 1996. Faculty Sarah Lawrence College, since 2004.
(Nurkse delivers, as always, narratives and lyrics of spar...)
(poetry, Voices Over Water is the record of the lives of a...)
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Volunteer Amnesty International, since 1973. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association.
Married Lucy Cobb, 1982 (divorced 1994), married Beth Bosworth, 2005. 1 child, Sonia.