Stephen Dunn, Author . Norton $21.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-393-05200-8
A Pulitzer Prize–winning poet of domestic emotions and New Jersey landscapes returns to familiar spaces and themes in this comfortable and comforting (if rarely surprising) 12th book. As in previous volumes, Dunn sorts his poems into related...
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Stephen Dunn, Author . Norton $23.95 (93p) ISBN 978-0-393-06239-7
Despite the sweeping title, Dunn's 14th collection stays close to home and true to form, engaging his personal history and ideas with straightforward intelligence, simple language and dry humor. The danger in these poems—lawlessness,...
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Stephen Dunn, Author . Norton $24.95 (203p) ISBN 978-0-393-06775-0
Pulitzer-winner Dunn has, since the 1970s, offered pellucid free verse with a great deal of thought cast into deliberately plain diction, about the ups and downs, the epiphanies and the wisdom, of middle-class domestic life. This 16th book of poems...
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Stephen Dunn, Author W. W. Norton & Company $19 (96p) ISBN 978-0-393-03982-5
Dunn's graceful and stirring collection is a walk through an ecosystem where loneliness is breathed in with the air and the wildlife takes on all too human problems. Dunn (Work & Love; Landscape at the End of the Century) begins with notes from the...
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Stephen Dunn, Author W. W. Norton & Company $22.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-393-05955-7
In this moody, introspective collection, Dunn, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, focuses on lost love and domestic solitude following the break-up of a long-term relationship. The speaker, alone, stares at his furniture and makes desolate
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Stephen Dunn, Author W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (94p) ISBN 978-0-393-02972-7
Moving outward from the territory of hearth and home he has mapped so well in earlier works, Dunn ( Between Angels ) demonstrates both old and new strengths in this slim, potent volume. A dark abstraction infuses the poems of Part I, as Dunn writes...
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Stephen Dunn, Author W. W. Norton & Company $22 (296p) ISBN 978-0-393-03618-3
``I love abstractions, I love / to give them a nouny place to live, / a firm seat in the balcony / of ideas, while music plays.'' Dunn ( Landscape at the End of the Century ) doesn't lapse from the human in his affection for ideas or in his playful...
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Stephen Dunn, Author W. W. Norton & Company $15.95 (111p) ISBN 978-0-393-02691-7
His seventh collection confirms Dunn ( Local Time ) as a metaphysical poet of the quotidian, a secular George Herbert. Like earlier metaphysicals, he dwells on the curious ambivalence harbored in abstractions; discursive poems like ``Tenderness,'' ``
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Stephen Dunn, Author Quill $0 (111p) ISBN 978-0-688-06153-1
This collection of 41 poems is the sixth volume of poetry from Dunn, who teaches at a state college in New Jersey and in a graduate writing program at Columbia. Dunn uses a simple vocabulary and a direct, accessible voice to evoke the passions and...
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Stephen Dunn, Author W. W. Norton & Company $20.95 (187p) ISBN 978-0-393-03488-2
Poet Dunn ( Full of Lust and Good Usage ) links these essays to his practice as a teacher of creative writing workshops; a student once suggested that he write down his insights from class. Perhaps as a result, these pieces seem addressed mostly to...
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Stephen Dunn, Author W. W. Norton & Company $22 (121p) ISBN 978-0-393-04986-2
This sensitive 11th book from Dunn (Loosestrife) largely sticks to familiar territory: in one central poem, a ""master"" advises the speaker to ""Use what's lying around the house./ Make it simple and sad."" Dunn follows that advice unwaveringly:...
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Stephen Dunn. Norton, $24.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-393-24081-8
In his 17th collection, Pulitzer-winner Dunn (Different Hours) navigates the social and moral boundaries of middle-class life with a weary eye and penchant for giving wavering advice. His distance from youth, when “a leather jacket helped for some,/
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Stephen Dunn. Norton, $25.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-393-25467-9
Pulitzer Prize–winner Dunn (Lines of Defense) explores the subjunctive mood in his 18th collection, probing the what-ifs, counterfactuals, and beliefs from which we build our lives. “A claim without a ‘but’ in it/ is, at best, only half true,” Dunn...
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Stephen Dunn. Norton, $26.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-324-00231-4
In this 19th book, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Dunn (Different Hours) offers up the soul of a mature, solitary man who appreciates company, but who finds that love is, ultimately, “a better way to be alone.” The humble pagan virtues he upholds may...
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