What Goes On Cl

by Dunn,Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780393067750
• ISBN10: 0393067750
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-05
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

In his second new and selected collection, Dunn subtly enlarges our sense of possibility. His new poems, suffused with affection and rue for our world, occasionally address the metaphysical.

Table of Contents

from Loosestrife (1996)
Tucson	p. 17
Wild	p. 18
Ars Poetica	p. 20
The Song	p. 22
Imagining Myself My Father	p. 24
Grace	p. 26
Criminal	p. 28
Tiger Face	p. 29
The Living	p. 31
The Refuge	p. 33
Loosestrife	p. 35
from Riffs & Reciprocities (1998)
Bourgeois/Religion	p. 48
Democracy/Rights	p. 50
Saints/Acquaintances	p. 52
Sky/Weather	p. 54
Faces/Bodies	p. 56
Lovers/Flirtation	p. 58
Luminescence/Seriousness	p. 60
Scapegoat/Criminal	p. 62
from Different Hours (2000)
Sixty	p. 67
Nature	p. 68
The Death of God	p. 70
Odysseus's Secret	p. 71
At the Restaurant	p. 73
Story	p. 75
John & Mary	p. 77
After	p. 78
Rubbing	p. 79
The Last Hours	p. 80
The Reverse Side	p. 82
Zero Hour	p. 83
Afterlife	p. 84
What Goes On	p. 86
The Metaphysicians of South Jersey	p. 88
Burying the Cat	p. 89
A Postmortem Guide	p. 91
from Local Visitations (2003)
Circular	p. 95
Knowledge	p. 96
Sisyphus and the Sudden Lightness	p. 97
Sisyphus in the Suburbs	p. 98
The Unsaid	p. 100
The Arm	p. 101
Best	p. 103
Chekhov in Port Republic	p. 104
Poe in Margate	p. 106
Henry James in Cape May	p. 108
Mary Shelley in Brigantine	p. 110
Melville at Barnegat Light	p. 112
from The Insistence of Beauty (2004)
The Stairway	p. 117
Open Door Blues	p. 118
The House Was Quiet	p. 119
Dismantling the House	p. 120
Juarez	p. 121
The Answers	p. 124
Grudges	p. 127
Cruelties	p. 128
Sleeping with Others	p. 129
The Answers	p. 130
Another Day	p. 132
In the Open Field	p. 133
The Waiting	p. 134
Achilles in Love	p. 135
Five Roses in the Morning	p. 137
The Insistence of Beauty	p. 138
from Everything Else in the World (2006)
Salvation	p. 143
The Soul's Agents	p. 144
My Ghost	p. 146
What I Might Say if I Could	p. 147
Where He Found Himself	p. 148
The Land of Is	p. 149
Replicas	p. 151
Everything Else in the World	p. 152
The Unrecorded Conversation	p. 154
Summer Nocturne	p. 156
The Slow Surge	p. 157
From the Tower at the Top of the Winding Stairs	p. 158
New Poems
Talk to God	p. 163
At the Nihilist's Funeral	p. 165
Last Words	p. 166
The Perfect Life	p. 167
Aren't They Beautiful?	p. 168
Language: A Love Poem	p. 170
Please Understand	p. 171
History	p. 172
The Mermaid	p. 174
The Room	p. 176
Worry	p. 178
The Book and I	p. 179
Mercy	p. 180
Abandon	p. 182
An Abbreviated Tour of the Not Yet Fallen World	p. 184
The Season of Grandeur and Lies	p. 187
Excitement	p. 188
And So	p. 190
The Mistaken	p. 191
What Men Want	p. 192
Index of poem titles and first lines	p. 199
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