Callings

by Dennis, Carl

• ISBN13: 9780143118381
• ISBN10: 0143118382
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781101462362
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-28
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize This new collection by acclaimed poet Carl Dennis is about vocation in the largest sense, the work that we believe gives our lives meaning, and the challenges that come in defining such work and in doing it well. The poems approach their subject from a variety of perspectives: a calling may involve a compromise with limitations, or be an expression of individual purpose; if a calling in some poems provides an alternative to the disorder of the world, in others it offers a means to shape the world as we are shaped by it. As the poems speak to each other, they form a dialogue of attitudes that makes room for both frustration and achievement, a dialogue that includes us and takes us beyond ourselves.

Author Biography

Carl Dennis is the author of ten previous works of poetry, as well as a collection of essays, Poetry as Persuasion. His 2001 book, Practical Gods, won the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Buffalo, New York.