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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780393322323
ISBN: 0393322327
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 2002-01
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
A wise and graceful new collection by one of our "major, indispensable poets" (Sidney Lea). The mysteries of Eros and Thanatos, the stubborn endurance of mind and body in the face of diminishment--these are the undercurrents of Stephen Dunn's eleventh volume. "I am interested in exploring the 'different' hours," he says, "not only of one's life, but also of the larger historical and philosophical life beyond the personal."
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I first came across Stephen Dunn's work in Contemporary American Poetry by A. Poulin, Jr. and Michael Waters (Eight Edition). I feel enjoyed the few poems included there and wanted to read more. Recommended from a friend, I purchased Different Hours by Stephen Dunn. I enjoyed almost every single one of his poems and read and re-read them over and over again. I loved how his poems at first seemed simple, but after reading them again and really analyzing them, they were really more complex than ... Read More
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Needless to say this is the goal of a lifetime for modern poets; write a Pulitzer Prize winning collection of poems. For Dunn this is validation of a lifetime of effort; the ultimate credential in poetry. The wording and imagery is exquisite. Unfortunately, he like most poets is not well served by his art. His poetry offers little for those searching for the next step but he seems to say there is no next step. For Dunn the truth is bland, ordinary, and frightenly hopeless. Dunn suggests ... Read More
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I first picked this book up before a class where we studied the Odyssey and while at the Columbia Bookstore I randomly opened the book up to 'Odysseus's Secret,' a poem that takes the Odysseus story and makes it applicable to the way with which we live our lives, moving with and dealing with the twists and turns that make us who we are. Suffice it to say after reading that I bought it immediately. After reading some of the other poems, most especially 'The Reverse Side,' I fell in love with this and ... Read More
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I'm no poet, and I'm not about to wax poetic here, on Amazon.com. I simply enjoy reading good poetry. There are only a few of us. You know, the people who read but don't write poetry.
Different Hours is by far my favorite collection of poetry. I've read many of Dunn's other collections, and have not been as impressed. This has nothing to do with the little gold stamp on the corner of the cover, either. The poems are well-balanced, and make you feel like Dunn has revealed something ... Read More
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Few poets achieve such a plainspoken poignancy as Mr. Dunn. I think of Cavafy, C.K. Williams, Philip Larkin, Horace -- masters of the craft gifted with the knack for discovering scraps of truth within the simplest words. "You might as well be a clown/big silly clothes, no evidence of desire," Dunn suggests in the book's opening poem. This is the language that gets you clawing through the pages to get to the lines that know you, that approve of some private cowardice or failure you wouldn't dare confess ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780393322323
ISBN: 0393322327
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 2002-01
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company