Local Visitations: Poems Contributor(s): Dunn, Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393326039 ISBN-13: 9780393326031 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2004 Annotation: IN THE FIRST SEQUENCE OF POEMS, an all-too-human Sisyphus struggles to navigate twenty-first-century America. Later, nineteenth-century novelists become "local visitors" to the author's South Jersey towns. |
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BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.54 |
Physical Information: 0.28" H x 5.52" W x 8.28" L (0.29 lbs) 98 pages |
Features: Price on Product |
Review Citations: Kliatt 03/01/2005 pg. 32 |
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Publisher 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). |
Contributor Bio(s): Dunn, Stephen: - Stephen Dunn is the author of nineteen poetry collections, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Different Hours, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the recipient of an Academy Award for Literature. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic, and American Poetry Review, among many other publications. A distinguished professor emeritus at Richard Stockton University, he lives in Frostburg, Maryland. |
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