Sold Out
Book Categories |
Brilliant new poems and an expansive gathering from six collections by a Pulitzer Prize winner celebrated as "indispensable."
Pulitzer-winner Dunn has, since the 1970s, offered pellucid free verse with a great deal of thought cast into deliberately plain diction, about the ups and downs, the epiphanies and the wisdom, of middle-class domestic life. This 16th book of poems and second Selected will certainly give loyal readers what they seek: prose poems and free-verse stanzas about small pleasures, houses and roads, disappointments, and sex, or the lack of it. "One night they both needed different things/ of a similar sort: she, solace, he to be consoled," one subtle if typical poem begins; another finds Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, "almost ready to praise this awful world." In his recent poems (including 20 new ones) faithful readers will also find surprises, none harsher or more startling than the poems from The Insistence of Beauty(2004) about late-life divorce. Dunn also takes into his usually calm sensibility the public events of recent years-9/11, the war in Iraq; these politicized calamities give him unsettling backdrops for his pathos, and his ongoing search for consolation: "how sad it is," he imagines telling God, "that awe has been replaced/ by small enthusiasms, that you're aware/ things just aren't the same these days." (Jan.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Login|Complaints|Blog|Games|Digital Media|Souls|Obituary|Contact Us|FAQ
CAN'T FIND WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? CLICK HERE!!! X
You must be logged in to add to WishlistX
This item is in your Wish ListX
This item is in your CollectionWhat Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009
X
This Item is in Your InventoryWhat Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009
X
You must be logged in to review the productsX
X
X
Add What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009, , What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009 to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
X
Add What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009, , What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009 to your collection on WonderClub |