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Recently, turning from poetry to prose, Stephen Dunn, acclaimed as one of the strongest poets of his generation, began to experiment with short, related prose pieces that played off each other in the manner of jazz improvisations. "I was interested in the tangentially related, each piece a discrete paragraph, sometimes an act of definition or redefinition, sometimes a description, occasionally a story." Throughout, Dunn takes a personal ownership of words that the dictionary merely defines objectively. The wisdom and startling verbal turns we've come to expect from his poetry are everywhere in the ninety miniatures (forty-five pairs) that compose this volume. There may be debts to Ponge and Calvino here, but Stephen Dunn has made prose pairs a fascinating genre of his own.
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Stephen Dunn lives in New Jersey, and teaches at Richard Stockton College. He is the recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Literature, and has published ten collections of poetry and Walking Light: Essays and Memoirs (Norton).
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Known for his observant, carefully crafted works, Dunn takes a turn here both in style and content; writing prose poems, he's become more personal, more introspective. He works in pairs, matching "Hypocrisy" with "Precision," "Passion" with "Paradox," and "Anger" with "Generosity" to explore the boundaries of our existence. What results is "the most engaging and provocative work he's written in some time" (LJ 5/15/98).
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0393046303
- ISBN 13 9780393046304
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