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Brilliant new poems and an expansive gathering from six collections by a Pulitzer Prize winner celebrated as “indispensable.”
What Goes On displays the evolving style and sensibility of a major award-winning poet, and a traceable growth that has blossomed into a provocative confrontation with questions of consciousness and existence. Stephen Dunn’s poems probe life’s big questions without ever losing sight of the significance of the mundane."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Stephen Dunn is the author of nineteen poetry collections, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Different Hours, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the recipient of an Academy Award for Literature. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic, and American Poetry Review, among many other publications. A distinguished professor emeritus at Richard Stockton University, he lives in Frostburg, Maryland.
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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 and second Selected will certainly give loyal readers what they seek: prose poems and free-verse stanzas about small pleasures, houses and roads, disappointments, and sex, or the lack of it. One night they both needed different things/ of a similar sort: she, solace, he to be consoled, one subtle if typical poem begins; another finds Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, almost ready to praise this awful world. In his recent poems (including 20 new ones) faithful readers will also find surprises, none harsher or more startling than the poems from The Insistence of Beauty (2004) about late-life divorce. Dunn also takes into his usually calm sensibility the public events of recent years—9/11, the war in Iraq; these politicized calamities give him unsettling backdrops for his pathos, and his ongoing search for consolation: how sad it is, he imagines telling God, that awe has been replaced/ by small enthusiasms, that youre aware/ things just arent the same these days. (Jan.)
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 039333855X
- ISBN 13 9780393338553
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