Local Visitations: Poems by Dunn, Stephen
Local Visitations: Poems by Dunn, Stephen

Local Visitations: Poems

In his twelfth collection, his first since winning the Pulitzer Prize, Stephen Dunn turns his keen gaze...
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Author: Stephen Dunn
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Local Visitations: Poems by Dunn, Stephen

Local Visitations: Poems

$44.03
Local Visitations: Poems by Dunn, Stephen

Local Visitations: Poems

$44.03
Author: Stephen Dunn
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
In his twelfth collection, his first since winning the Pulitzer Prize, Stephen Dunn turns his keen gaze on Sisyphus, our contemporary Everyman. Free, for the time being, from the power of the gods and the ceaseless weight of the rock, he struggles to navigate twenty-first-century America. In language by turns mordant and tender, often elegiac, Dunn illuminates the quotidian burdens of his all-too-human hero, as well as the abrasions of ambivalence and choice, finally concluding that here / and there, though mostly here, even fate is reversible / with struggle or luck.

In a second sequence of poems, nineteenth-century novelists become local visitors to the author's South Jersey towns. Chekhov in Port Republic, Jane Austen in Egg Harbor, Dostoyevsky in Wildwood: these inventions and others give Dunn provocative new latitudes. As in his previous books, he balances the casual and the vivid as he plumbs the ambiguity and mystery of human relations (New York Times Book Review).

Author: Stephen Dunn
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/17/2004
Pages: 98
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.52w x 0.28d
ISBN: 9780393326031


Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 03/01/2005 pg. 32

About the Author
Dunn, Stephen: - Stephen Dunn (1939-2021) was the author of nineteen poetry collections, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Different Hours. He was a distinguished professor emeritus at Richard Stockton University and received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among many other honors.
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