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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780393067750
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0393067750
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: January 05, 2009
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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Brilliant new poems and an expansive gathering from six collections by a Pulitzer Prize winner celebrated as "indispensable."
"Good poems are triumphs over the unlikely," Stephen Dunn says. "They make us pay attention in new ways." In his second new and selected collection, Dunn subtly enlarges our sense of possibility. His new poems, suffused with affection and rue for our world, occasionally address the metaphysical, as in these lines—
from “Talk to God” Ease into your misgivings Ask him if in his weakness he was ever responsible for a pettiness—some weather, say, brought in to show who’s boss when no one seemed sufficiently moved by a sunset or the shape of an egg. Ask him if when he gave us desire he had underestimated its power. .
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When a poet can make me feel uncomfortable and intrigued while reading a poem in the intimacy of my bed I know I have come across something that deserves praise. Stephen Dunn manages to take the most trivial of experiences and dig them into your flesh where they bury seeds of inquiry and reflection. Dunn makes the reader look back on his/her seemingly mundane life experiences and reevaluate the effect it has had in their life. Not many poets have the power to use simple words as a medium of such ... Read More
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Some poets are able to capture an extraordinary moment in their poetry, illuminating for the reader something completely unparalleled, something which makes the reader sit up and go, "Whoa, I wish I could have experienced that."
But other poets are able to see the extraordinary in the ordinary. They are able to reflect on something common (the burial of a family pet, a wife's arrival home, the endless cycle of tabloid news) and show each beautiful angle, each hidden emotion -- both comic ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780393067750
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0393067750
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: January 05, 2009
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company