New & selected poems
(1974-1994)
1st ed.
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Word Count
74,000 words, Guess
Page Count
296 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1422791M
- ISBN-100393036189
- OCLC Control Number28854454
- OCLC Control Numbernewselectedpoems0000dunn_n9p4
- Library of Congress Control Number93033212
and 2 more
- LibraryThing82811
- Goodreads2048621
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3554.U49 N49 1994
Alternate Titles
- New and selected poems.
Description
Stephen Dunn is justly celebrated as one of the strongest poets of his generation. Now in this rich gathering, he selects from his eight collections and includes sixteen new poems marked by the haunting "Snowmass Cycle". The heralded clarity and intelligence of Dunn's poems are in full evidence here, as is his ability to charm and evoke pathos. As the poet's earlier focus moves from - but never entirely forsakes - the mysteries of dailiness and the complications of domestic life, he more openly embraces the philosophical and social concerns that have always been at the heart of his work. As ever, wit happily resides with seriousness, affirmation coexists with hardship. "I want to find the cool, precise language / for how passion gives rise to passion," Dunn says in one of the new poems. For two decades, such insistence has led him to a wise lucidity that places him among our consequential poets.
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