Different Hours Poems

by Dunn, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780393049862
• ISBN10: 0393049868
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

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 also of the larger historical and philosophical life beyond the personal."

Author Biography

Stephen Dunn is a Trustee Fellow in the Arts and Professor of Creative Writing at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. In 1995 he received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other awards are the Levinson Award from Poetry magazine and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 13
Before the Sky Darkens	p. 19
Sixty	p. 21
Evanescence	p. 23
At the Restaurant	p. 24
The Death of God	p. 26
Capriccio Italien	p. 28
Old Dogs	p. 30
Odysseus's Secret	p. 32
What Goes On	p. 34
Their Divorce	p. 36
Dog Weather	p. 38
Optimism	p. 40
Androgyne	p. 41
Zero Hour	p. 43
The Hours	p. 44
The Party	p. 47
Simpler Times	p. 49
Our Parents	p. 51
Empathy	p. 52
The Last Hours	p. 55
Luck	p. 57
The Sexual Revolution	p. 59
The Same Cold	p. 61
Losing steps	p. 63
After	p. 66
So Far	p. 67
Different Hours	p. 69
The Reverse Side	p. 73
The Overt	p. 74
John and Mary	p. 77
Art	p. 79
Rubbing	p. 81
A Spiritual Woman	p. 83
Irresistible	p. 85
Returning from an Artist's Studio	p. 87
Story	p. 89
Visiting the Master	p. 91
The Metaphysicians of South Jersey	p. 95
His Town	p. 97
Another Man	p. 99
Men in the Sky	p. 101
Emperors	p. 102
One Moment and the Next in the Pine Barrens	p. 104
Afterlife	p. 106
Chokecherry	p. 108
Nature	p. 109
Burying the Cat	p. 111
Oklahoma City	p. 113
Backwaters	p. 115
Phantom	p. 117
A Postmortem Guide	p. 119
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