Everything Else in the World Poems

by Dunn, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780393062397
• ISBN10: 0393062392
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

"One of our indispensable poets."--Miami Herald In his fourteenth collection of poems, Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn reveals his concerns, ranging from meditations on salvation and time to the difficulties and pleasures of loving in this "already brutal century." In language that Gerald Stern has called "unbearably fearless and beautiful," Dunn continues to probe the elusive in the lives we live.

Table of Contents

A small part	p. 17
The lost thing	p. 19
Lucky	p. 20
Salvation	p. 22
My ghost	p. 23
What I might say if I could	p. 25
Emptiness	p. 27
Where he found himself	p. 29
The unrecorded conversation	p. 30
Time	p. 32
Replicas	p. 34
The soul's agents	p. 36
You'd be right	p. 38
Everything else in the world	p. 39
The land of Is	p. 43
Postcard from Tortola	p. 45
Returning to the ravens	p. 46
Madrugada	p. 48
Inventing Wallace Stevens	p. 49
Critics	p. 50
Process	p. 52
How to write a dream poem	p. 54
Signs	p. 57
Moonrakers	p. 59
The telling of grandmother's secret	p. 61
Infatuation	p. 69
The kiss	p. 71
Summer nocturne	p. 72
Bad plants	p. 73
The slow surge	p. 75
At his house	p. 76
Cardinal cardinal	p. 78
I caught myself thinking the horizon	p. 80
Poker night in Tornado Alley	p. 82
No wonder	p. 84
Cut and break	p. 86
Explanations	p. 88
From the tower at the top of the winding stairs	p. 90
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