What goes on : selected & new poems, 1995-2009 / Stephen Dunn.
2009
PS3554.U49 W47 2009
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Title
What goes on : selected & new poems, 1995-2009 / Stephen Dunn.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780393067750 (hardcover)
0393067750 (hardcover)
9780393338553 (pbk.)
039333855X (pbk.)
0393067750 (hardcover)
9780393338553 (pbk.)
039333855X (pbk.)
Imprint
New York : W.W. Norton, c2009.
Description
203 p. ; 25 cm.
Exhibited
2009 Poets House Showcase
Call Number
PS3554.U49 W47 2009
Summary
Brilliant new poems and an expansive gathering from six collections by a Pulitzer Prize winner celebrated as "indispensable." "Good poems are triumphs over the unlikely," Stephen Dunn says. "They make us pay attention in new ways." In his second new and selected collection, Dunn subtly enlarges our sense of possibility.
Subject
Brilliant new poems and an expansive gathering from six collections by a Pulitzer Prize winner celebrated as "indispensable." "Good poems are triumphs over the unlikely," Stephen Dunn says. "They make us pay attention in new ways." In his second new and selected collection, Dunn subtly enlarges our sense of possibility.
Note
Includes index.
"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"--Jacket.
"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"--Jacket.
Formatted Contents Note
from Loosestrife
Tucson
Wild
Ars poetica
The song
Imagining myself my father
Grace
Criminal
Tiger face
The living
The refuge
Loosestrife
from Riffs & reciprocities
Bourgeois/religion
Democracy/rights
Saints/acquaintances
Sky/weather
Faces/bodies
Lovers/flirtation
Luminescence/seriousness
Scapegoat/criminal
from Different hours
Sixty
Nature
The death of God
Odysseus's secret
At the restaurant
Story
John & Mary
After
Rubbing
The last hours
The reverse side
Zero hour
Afterlife
What goes on
The metaphysicians of South Jersey
Burying the cat
A postmortem guide
from Local visitations
Circular
Knowledge
Sisyphus and the sudden lightness
Sisyphus in the suburbs
The unsaid
The arm
Best
Chekhov in Port Republic
Poe in Margate
Henry James in Cape May
Mary Shelley in Brigantine
Melville at Barnegat Light
from The insistence of beauty
The stairway
Open door blues
The house was quiet
Dismantling the house
Juarez
The answers
Grudges
Cruelties
Sleeping with others
The answers
Another day
In the open field
The waiting
Achilles in love
Five roses in the morning
The insistence of beauty
from Everything else in the world
Salvation
The soul's agents
My ghost
What I might say if I could
Where he found himself
The land of Is
Replicas
Everything else in the world
The unrecorded conversation
Summer nocturne
The slow surge
From the tower at the top of the winding stairs
New poems
Talk to God
At the nihilist's funeral
Last words
The perfect line
Aren't they beautiful?
Language : a love poem
Please understand
History
The mermaid
The room
Worry
The book and I
Mercy
Abandon
An abbreviated tour of the not yet fallen world
The season of grandeur and lies
Excitement
And so
The mistaken
What men want.
Tucson
Wild
Ars poetica
The song
Imagining myself my father
Grace
Criminal
Tiger face
The living
The refuge
Loosestrife
from Riffs & reciprocities
Bourgeois/religion
Democracy/rights
Saints/acquaintances
Sky/weather
Faces/bodies
Lovers/flirtation
Luminescence/seriousness
Scapegoat/criminal
from Different hours
Sixty
Nature
The death of God
Odysseus's secret
At the restaurant
Story
John & Mary
After
Rubbing
The last hours
The reverse side
Zero hour
Afterlife
What goes on
The metaphysicians of South Jersey
Burying the cat
A postmortem guide
from Local visitations
Circular
Knowledge
Sisyphus and the sudden lightness
Sisyphus in the suburbs
The unsaid
The arm
Best
Chekhov in Port Republic
Poe in Margate
Henry James in Cape May
Mary Shelley in Brigantine
Melville at Barnegat Light
from The insistence of beauty
The stairway
Open door blues
The house was quiet
Dismantling the house
Juarez
The answers
Grudges
Cruelties
Sleeping with others
The answers
Another day
In the open field
The waiting
Achilles in love
Five roses in the morning
The insistence of beauty
from Everything else in the world
Salvation
The soul's agents
My ghost
What I might say if I could
Where he found himself
The land of Is
Replicas
Everything else in the world
The unrecorded conversation
Summer nocturne
The slow surge
From the tower at the top of the winding stairs
New poems
Talk to God
At the nihilist's funeral
Last words
The perfect line
Aren't they beautiful?
Language : a love poem
Please understand
History
The mermaid
The room
Worry
The book and I
Mercy
Abandon
An abbreviated tour of the not yet fallen world
The season of grandeur and lies
Excitement
And so
The mistaken
What men want.
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