New and Selected Poems 1974-1994

New and Selected Poems 1974-1994 PDF Author: Stephen Dunn
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393244962
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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Justly celebrated as one of our strongest poets, Stephen Dunn selects from his eight collections and presents sixteen new poems marked by the haunting "Snowmass Cycle."

New and Selected Poems 1974-1994

New and Selected Poems 1974-1994 PDF Author: Stephen Dunn
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393244962
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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Book Description
Justly celebrated as one of our strongest poets, Stephen Dunn selects from his eight collections and presents sixteen new poems marked by the haunting "Snowmass Cycle."

Dream Of The Unified Field

Dream Of The Unified Field PDF Author: Jorie Graham
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062105914
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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The 1996 Pulitzer winner in poetry and a major collection, Jorie Graham's The Dream of the United Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 spans twenty years of writing and includes generous selections from her first five books: Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts, The End of Beauty, Region of Unlikeness,and Materialism.

Here and Now: Poems

Here and Now: Poems PDF Author: Stephen Dunn
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393080218
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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A collection of poems on the contradictions experienced in the here and now, both political and metaphysical, and the essential human comedy of getting through the day.

New and Selected Poems 1974-1994

New and Selected Poems 1974-1994 PDF Author: Stephen Dunn
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039331300X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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Book Description
Justly celebrated as one of our strongest poets, Stephen Dunn selects from his eight collections and presents sixteen new poems marked by the haunting "Snowmass Cycle."

What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009

What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009 PDF Author: Stephen Dunn
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039333855X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Book Description
Brilliant new poems and an expansive gathering from six collections by a Pulitzer Prize winner celebrated as “indispensable.” What Goes On displays the evolving style and sensibility of a major award-winning poet, and a traceable growth that has blossomed into a provocative confrontation with questions of consciousness and existence. Stephen Dunn’s poems probe life’s big questions without ever losing sight of the significance of the mundane.

Later Poems

Later Poems PDF Author: Adrienne Rich
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393089568
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 545

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Book Description
Presents a selection of poetry that draws from twelve volumes of the late author's published work as well as a manuscript posthumously left behind.

The Not Yet Fallen World: New and Selected Poems

The Not Yet Fallen World: New and Selected Poems PDF Author: Stephen Dunn
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393882268
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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“An indispensable volume.” —Ron Charles, Washington Post Book Club A radiant celebration of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Stephen Dunn’s enduring oeuvre. Hailed as "indispensable" (David Wojahn), Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Stephen Dunn masterfully shifts between the metaphysical and the ironic, never wavering in his essential honesty. His graceful poems confront our contradictions with tenderness and wit, enliven the ordinary with penetrating observation, and alert us to the haunting wonders and relationships that surround us. The Not Yet Fallen World draws from all nineteen of Stephen Dunn’s crystalline volumes, including his most recent, Pagan Virtues (2019); the National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Loosestrife (1996); and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Different Hours (2000). By turns sardonic and profound, Dunn examines the disguises we don to hide from ourselves and reveals sublime beauty hidden within seemingly mundane interactions. Nine new poems extend the poet’s inquiry into the paradoxes of contemporary life; as he writes in "Love Poem Near the End of the World," "Something keeps me holding on / to a future I didn’t think possible." Arranged to further Dunn’s signature themes—mortality, morality, and the roles we play in the essential human comedy of getting through each day—this final collection captures the breadth of an acclaimed poet’s achievement. His legacy is a poetic expanse suffused with fearless generosity and perceptive wisdom.

Riffs and Reciprocities: Prose Pairs

Riffs and Reciprocities: Prose Pairs PDF Author: Stephen Dunn
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393319571
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Book Description
"This Astaire-like glide through our not-so-idle talk is a pleasure."—Publishers Weekly Stephen Dunn experiments with short, related pieces that play off each other in the manner of jazz improvisations. The resulting pairs cover such subjects as "Scruples/Saints," "Hypocrisy/Precision," and "Anger/Generosity." The wisdom and startling turns we've come to expect from Dunn are everywhere in the ninety miniatures (forty-five pairs) that comprise this volume.

From the New World

From the New World PDF Author: Jorie Graham
Publisher: Ecco
ISBN: 9780062315403
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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From pulitzer prize winner Jorie Graham, an indispensable volume of poems selected from almost four decades of work Much awaited and long needed, From the New World—a sequence of poems from Jorie Graham’s prior eleven books—creates a startlingly fresh trajectory through books whose brilliance and far-reaching innovations have been a significant influence on the landscape of contemporary poetry, both in the United States and abroad. Part spiritual autobiography, part survival manual, From the New World tracks what it is to attempt wakefulness in this our unprecedented historical, social, and ecological crisis. Life as we have known it, both in our persons and on the globe, rises in all its terror and deep mystery from these pages. How are we to be responsible, the book asks; how attend to drastic disappearance and still love? We finally have, in one volume, the stunning story Graham has written to keep both art and the human spirit instantaneously yet enduringly alive. “From the New World is an indispensable addition to any literary library, a tour de force selection of Jorie Graham’s critically important poems to date.”—New York Journal of Books “Graham’s great body of work, summarized in From the New World, her new career-spanning selected poems...has so much in it, more of life and of the world than that of almost any other poet now writing....Graham is to post-1980 poetry what Bob Dylan is to post-1960 rock: She changed her art form, moved it forward, made it able to absorb and express more than it could before. It permanently bears her mark.”—New York Times “Graham’s poems make use of all the old lyric technologies, as ancient as the breath and the beating of the heart—rhythm, the managed intervals of line and stanza, the play of language against silence, and the transformations enacted by metaphor—enlisting them to measure a world of spawning complexity and change. But because she finds herself gauged by the world she gauges, a poetry that would seem almost too fine-grained for politics has become, in the past twenty years or so, a sui-generis account of global ills like species extinction and climate change.”— The New Yorker “Like the greatest filmmakers, Graham is miraculously gifted at tracing those inexplicable moments that carry a thing—a crow, the sun, a snowflake—from stillness to motion, from wholeness to disintegration and back again....I know of no living poet whose work so aligns with their reason for writing; I know of no living poet with a better reason for writing poetry. In Jorie Graham’s vision of a new world, poetry—thought in motion—is faster and more powerful than money, argument, or destruction. Take me there.”—Flavorwire “Graham’s is the best poetry written in English in the last forty years. The achievement of her verse is not only to make something happen: Graham’s poetry is something happening....We will always need to read Jorie Graham, and to read her closely, if we want to understand the last forty years of poetry in America (as well as abroad, where her reputation is only growing)....From the New World is now the place to start.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

Runaway

Runaway PDF Author: Jorie Graham
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006303672X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 139

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An NPR Best Book of the Year A new collection of poetry from one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham In her formidable and clairvoyant new collection, Runaway, Jorie Graham deepens her vision of our futurity. What of us will survive? Identity may be precarious, but perhaps love is not? Keeping pace with the desperate runaway of climate change, social disruption, our new mass migrations, she struggles to reimagine a habitable present—a now—in which we might endure, wary, undaunted, ever-inventive, “counting silently towards infinity.” Graham’s essential voice guides us fluently “as we pass here now into the next-on world,” what future we have surging powerfully through these pages, where the poet implores us “to the last be human.”