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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 811 EAN: 9780393330380 ISBN: 0393330389 Label: W. W. Norton Manufacturer: W. W. Norton Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 96 Publication Date: July 01, 2008 Publisher: W. W. Norton Studio: W. W. Norton Editorial Review: Product Description: "Essential to contemporary poetry collections."—Library Journal In his fourteenth collection, Stephen Dunn, "one of our indispensable poets" (Miami Herald), continues to probe brilliantly the unsaid and the elusive in the lives we live, in language that Gerald Stern has called "unbearably fearless and beautiful." Average Rating:
 Rating:  - EmptinessStill enjoying the book...have read the first half of the book in one sitting and the mundaneness of life (having to go to work) has forced me to delay reading the rest... ANyone who can write like this ...is a genius! EMPTINESS I've learned mine can't be filled, only alchemized. Many times it's become a paragraph or a page. But usually I've hidden it, not knowing until too late how enormous it grows in its dark. ... ... Read More Rating:  - A great american poetDunn well deserved the Pulitzer. His body of work is impressive and while this voulme is good, it is not one of best but still a joy. He ruminates on life from the perspective of age, "A Small Part"(many summers later I'd learn to love/the shadows illumination creates/but experience always occurs too late/to undo what's been done). And he imparts the wisdom of having seen a lot over a very long time in "Critics" ("Their job is sometimes to winnow/and omit.Yours is to go on...your job is to show ... Read More Rating: - poems rooted in common soilOver time, Stephen Dunn has dared to tackle the intangible as well as the concrete. This is in addition to the multitudinous sides of human existence he has always explored. Dunn does not reveal what we want to know about ourselves, but what we need to know. Just like in _Riffs & Reciprocities_, where opposites found similarities and agreement and common bonds within each other, so do the explorations of this fine poet in this collection touch upon not only the light and dark, but the softly illuminated ... Read More |
