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  • What Goes On

    Selected and New Poems 1995-2009

    by Stephen Dunn ...
    Brilliant new poems and an expansive gathering from six collections by a Pulitzer Prize winner celebrated as “indispensable.”What Goes On displays the evolving style and sensibility of a major award-winning poet, and a traceable growth that has blossomed into a provocative confrontation with questions of consciousness and existence. Stephen Dunn’s poems probe life’s big questions without ever ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Whereas

    Poems

    by Stephen Dunn ...
    In wise and masterful poems, Stephen Dunn “reveals a deep understanding of human longing and the desire to become more than what we are” (Washington Post).Incisively capturing the oddities of our logic and the whimsies of our reason, the poems in Whereas show there is always another side to a story. With graceful rhythm and equal parts humor and seriousness, Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Not Yet Fallen World

    New and Selected Poems

    by Stephen Dunn ...
    **“An indispensable volume.” —Ron Charles, Washington Post Book ClubA radiant celebration of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Stephen Dunn’s enduring oeuvre.**Hailed as "indispensable" (David Wojahn), Pulitzer Prize–winning 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 ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

  • Pagan Virtues

    Poems

    by Stephen Dunn ...
    “A sly, companionable collection” (New York Times Book Review) that offers indispensable truths from a master of contemporary poetry.In this meditative and incisive collection, Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn draws on themes of morality and mortality to explore the innermost machinations of human nature. Shifting in tone but never wavering in their essential honesty, these poems reflect on ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • New and Selected Poems 1974-1994

    by Stephen Dunn ...
    Justly celebrated as one of our strongest poets, Stephen Dunn selects from his eight collections and presents sixteen new poems marked by the haunting "Snowmass Cycle." ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • The Insistence of Beauty

    Poems

    by Stephen Dunn ...
    An evocation of beauty's often-surprising manifestations; even in the face of tragedy."Beauty isn't nice. Beauty isn't fair;" So, in part, states an epigraph for this stunning new collection, his thirteenth, by the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry (2000). First traversing betrayal and loss, Stephen Dunn then moves to speak of new love, with its attendant pleasures and questioning. The title poem, ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Different Hours

    Poems

    by Stephen Dunn ...
    Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.A wise and graceful new collection by one of our "major, indispensable poets" (Sidney Lea). The mysteries of Eros and Thanatos, the stubborn endurance of mind and body in the face of diminishment--these are the undercurrents of Stephen Dunn's eleventh volume. "I am interested in exploring the 'different' hours," he says, "not only of one's life, but ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Riffs and Reciprocities

    Prose Pairs

    by Stephen Dunn ...
    "This Astaire-like glide through our not-so-idle talk is a pleasure."—Publishers WeeklyStephen Dunn experiments with short, related pieces that play off each other in the manner of jazz improvisations. The resulting pairs cover such subjects as "Scruples/Saints," "Hypocrisy/Precision," and "Anger/Generosity." The wisdom and startling turns we've come to expect from Dunn are everywhere in the ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Lines of Defense

    Poems

    by Stephen Dunn ...
    “[Stephen Dunn] has taken his place among our major, indispensable poets.”—Miami HeraldIn his seventeenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn confronts the lines we fight against and the ones we draw for ourselves. Lines of Defense poignantly captures the absurdities of modern life, expectations derailed, the lived life juxtaposed to the imagined life, and the defenses we don ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Everything Else in the World

    Poems

    by Stephen Dunn ...
    “Essential to contemporary poetry collections.”—Library JournalIn 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.” ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Here and Now

    Poems

    by Stephen Dunn ...
    “A wonderful example of the poet’s ability to satisfy readers and anticipate their thoughts.”—Elizabeth Lund, Washington PostIn his sixteenth collection, Stephen Dunn continues to bring his imagination and intelligence to what Wallace Stevens calls “the problems of the normal,” which of course pervade most of our lives. The poem “Don’t Do That” opens with the lines: “It was bring-your-own if you ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Local Visitations

    Poems

    by Stephen Dunn ...
    Wise and searching new poems from the winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.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 ... Read more

    $11.69 USD