Hailed as "indispensable" (David Wojahn), poet Stephen Dunn masterfully shifts between the metaphysical and the ironic, never wavering in his essential honesty. His graceful poems confront our contradictions with tenderness and wit, enliven the ordinary with penetrating observation and alert us to the haunting wonders and relationships that surround us.The Not Yet Fallen World draws from all nineteen of Stephen Dunn's crystalline volumes, including his most recent, Pagan Virtues (2019); the National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Loosestrife (1996); and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Different Hours (2000). By turns sardonic and profound, Dunn examines the disguises we don to hide from ourselves and reveals sublime beauty hidden within seemingly mundane interactions. Nine new poems extend the poet's inquiry into the paradoxes of contemporary life; as he writes in "Love Poem Near the End of the World", "Something keeps me holding on / to a future I didn't think possible".Arranged to further Dunn's signature themes-mortality, morality and the roles we play in the essential human comedy of getting through each day-this final collection captures the breadth of an acclaimed poet's achievement. His legacy is a poetic expanse suffused with fearless generosity and perceptive wisdom.
Justly celebrated as one of our strongest poets, Stephen Dunn selects here from his eight collections and presents sixteen new poems marked by the haunting 'Snowmass Cycle.' Mr. Dunn is also the author of a volume of prose, 'Walking Light: Essays and Memoirs'. He teaches at Richard Stockton College in Pomona, New Jersey.
In the language of and for our interior lives, Dunn makes poetry a communal act between the poet and his readers. Dunn's landscape at the end of the century embraces the spectrum of urgencies and obsessions that we live with and for. It's a landscape that we share with citizens and spies, revelers and mourners, women who weep, men who keep secrets, and especially with the poet himself.
A radiant celebration of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn's enduring oeuvre.
Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn returns with his signature morbid wit, intellectual daring, and emotive powers on full display.
An evocation of beauty's often-surprising manifestations; even in the face of tragedy.
Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn examines the difficulties of telling the truth, and the fictions with which we choose to live.
"Dunn's new poems are driven by the same tireless force that made his New and Selected Poems (1994) so powerful, but there is a new tone here, a deepening of his recognition of life's perversities."-Booklist
"[Stephen Dunn] has taken his place among our major, indispensable poets."-Miami Herald
"A wonderful example of the poet's ability to satisfy readers and anticipate their thoughts."-Elizabeth Lund, Washington Post
"Essential to contemporary poetry collections."-Library Journal
Brilliant new poems and an expansive gathering from six collections by a Pulitzer Prize winner celebrated as "indispensable."
Wise and searching new poems from the winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
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