Author

Publication

1996 - W.W. Norton & Co., New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

24,000 words, Guess

Page Count

96 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing184095
  • Goodreads2049180

Classifications

  • DDC811/.54
  • LCCPS3554.U49 L65 1996

Alternate Titles

  • Loose strife

Description

Stephen Dunn's wisdom and craft are once again on display in this new collection, his darkest and most brooding gaze into our lives to date. The poet's penetrating intelligence and mordant wit fixes on an America growing ever more stringent with its daily mercies, ever more withholding of daily opportunities for grace, for decency. In the title poem and in the book as a whole, Dunn doesn't merely observe the world, he is a participant - willing and unwilling; his stance is always dual, complicit. He navigates through each paradox and conundrum of his moral, aesthetic, and erotic selves, careful to steer between the extremes of certainty or confusion, and travels to a place of exact and complicated vision.

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Other Editions

  • Loosestrife: poemsW.W. Norton & Co.1996-01-01

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